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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": "2008-04-09 15:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mario Silva (Davenport, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1011233\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I have several petitions. The first petition calls upon Parliament to immediately respect the long-standing policy advocated for Canadians around the world who have been sentenced to death, that the Government of Canada clearly reaffirm Canada's position on the death penalty.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1011234\" data-originallang=\"en\">The death penalty is a cruel and inhumane punishment and was abolished in 1976 and is inconsistent with Canadian values.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1011235\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners ask the government to stand up to that proud Canadian tradition of saying no to the death penalty around the world and provide clemency, in any way possible, to Canadians who are in jails abroad.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1011233\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai plusieurs p\u00e9titions. La premi\u00e8re demande au Parlement de respecter imm\u00e9diatement la politique de longue date concernant les Canadiens condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 mort dans un pays \u00e9tranger et au gouvernement de r\u00e9affirmer clairement la position du Canada sur la peine de mort. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1011234\" data-originallang=\"en\">La peine de mort est une punition cruelle et inhumaine qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 abolie en 1976 et qui va \u00e0 l'encontre des valeurs canadiennes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1011235\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement de d\u00e9fendre cette fi\u00e8re tradition canadienne qui consiste \u00e0 dire non \u00e0 la peine de mort partout au monde et \u00e0 r\u00e9clamer la cl\u00e9mence, de toutes les mani\u00e8res possibles, pour les Canadiens qui sont en prison \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/4/9/mario-silva-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mario-silva/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1357/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2408508",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/4/9/",
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}
}