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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.
{
"time": "2007-11-20 14:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Ken Boshcoff (Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"774899\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to rise and honour the Sunset Country M\u00e9tis people.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774900\" data-originallang=\"en\"> These children of the fur trade carry a proud history in Canadian society, filling many key roles with wisdom, tenacity and quiet confidence as they helped to build the Rainy River district.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774901\" data-originallang=\"en\">From their example, we have learned respect for the environment, a sharing of the harvest, and a caring for others.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774902\" data-originallang=\"en\">I ask members to please join me in thanking the Sunset Country M\u00e9tis people for their valuable contribution to the prosperity and development of Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774903\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am honoured to call many of them friends and also honoured to be able to represent such great communities in Parliament.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"774899\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est un privil\u00e8ge pour moi de rendre aujourd'hui hommage aux M\u00e9tis de Sunset Country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774900\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces descendants de la traite des fourrures peuvent \u00eatre fiers de leur place dans l'histoire de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne, ayant assum\u00e9 avec sagesse, t\u00e9nacit\u00e9 et confiance de nombreux r\u00f4les cl\u00e9s qui ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 forger le district de Rainy River. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774901\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par leur exemple, nous avons appris \u00e0 respecter l'environnement, \u00e0 partager le fruit des r\u00e9coltes et \u00e0 nous soucier d'autrui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774902\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je demanderais aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s de bien vouloir se joindre \u00e0 moi pour remercier les M\u00e9tis de Sunset Country de leur importante contribution \u00e0 la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 et au d\u00e9veloppement du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"774903\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai l'honneur de compter beaucoup d'entre eux parmi mes amis et j'ai aussi l'honneur de repr\u00e9senter ces importantes communaut\u00e9s au Parlement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/11/20/ken-boshcoff-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/37/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1432/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2207135",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Sunset Country M\u00e9tis",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/11/20/",
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}
}