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": "2003-09-16 15:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Martin Cauchon (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, we said many times that it is a question of rights. We are talking about equality rights. It is a question of dignity as well. The course of action that has been chosen by the government is the right course of action.</p>\n<p>We are striking the right balance with the draft bill because we are facing essentially two principles: equality rights as well as the protection of religious belief. We will obtain the opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada and then parliamentarians will have their say on a free vote.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/9/16/martin-cauchon-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/5142/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3301/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Question Period",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Marriage",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/9/16/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F9%2F16%2F"
    }
}