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.
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.
{
"time": "2008-04-03 17:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Hedy Fry",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1001077\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member says that we should just go ahead and vote and not sit on our hands. The point is that if we believe in process, we believe in appropriate process and this is not appropriate process. This is chicanery. This is trickery. This is the kind of stuff that we will not play a role in by acknowledging that it is so and therefore standing up and voting yea or nay against it. That is something that we refuse to do on this side of the House because it demeans Parliament and we will not play a role in demeaning Parliament with trickery.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1001078\" data-originallang=\"en\">The hon. member mentioned that the backlog came from the Liberals and that this was all because of cutting immigration in the beginning. It is so usual for the members in that party not to understand basic economics, that when there is a $43 billion deficit left by the--</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1001077\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e affirme que nous devrions tout simplement passer au vote et cesser de tergiverser. Toutefois, si croyons en un processus, nous voulons pouvoir respecter un processus appropri\u00e9 et ce n'est pas le cas ici. Il n'y a que chamailleries et supercheries. C'est le genre de choses auxquelles nous ne voulons pas participer en en reconnaissant l'existence et en nous pronon\u00e7ant \u00e0 ce sujet. C'est le genre de chose que nous refusons de faire de notre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la Chambre parce que cela ne fait que d\u00e9valoriser le Parlement et nous ne voulons pas participer \u00e0 une supercherie qui ne ferait que d\u00e9valoriser le Parlement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1001078\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e a soulign\u00e9 que ce sont les lib\u00e9raux qui sont responsables de l'arri\u00e9r\u00e9 et que tout cela s'explique par les compressions effectu\u00e9es. Il n'y a rien d'inhabituel \u00e0 voir les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de ce parti ne pas comprendre des principes \u00e9conomiques de base, c'est-\u00e0-dire que lorsqu'on h\u00e9rite d'un d\u00e9ficit de 43 milliards de dollars de... </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/4/3/hedy-fry-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2397526",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2008",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/4/3/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2008%2F4%2F3%2F"
}
}