Speech (House debate)

This is a single speech (house debate) resource from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.

Content

Get this resource as raw JSON.

See the corresponding webpage.

{
    "time": "2001-11-20 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Elinor Caplan (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, we all know that there are people who come to Canada and ask for protection who do not need protection. We also know that there are people who come to Canada who ask for protection and who in fact are inadmissible to Canada. That is what the Immigration and Refugee Board sorts out.</p>\n<p>Under the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, we have done everything we believe is reasonable to try to make that as fast as possible because the goal is to provide protection only to those people who are in genuine need and to those who are not admissible or not\u2014</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2001/11/20/elinor-caplan-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/4818/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2635/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Immigration",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2001/11/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2001%2F11%2F20%2F"
    }
}