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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": "2008-06-17 16:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Acting Speaker (Mr. Royal Galipeau)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1167511\" data-originallang=\"en\">The hon. member for Scarborough--Rouge River will indeed appreciate today the goodwill that he has established with his colleagues over the last 20 years that resulted in them giving him unanimous consent to speak. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1167512\" data-originallang=\"en\">As he knows, I was not inclined to give him the right to speak. In response to the point of order that he raised, page 476 of Marleau and Montpetit supports my own hesitation and I will read one sentence for his edification:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1167513\" data-originallang=\"en\"> After a motion has been proposed to the House, the Speaker recognizes the mover as the first to speak in debate. If the mover chooses not to speak, he or she is nonetheless deemed to have spoken... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1167514\" data-originallang=\"en\">Questions and comments, the hon. member for Windsor--Tecumseh.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1167511\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Scarborough--Rouge River sera heureux d'avoir \u00e9tabli des rapports d'estime avec ses coll\u00e8gues au fil des 20 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, ce qui lui a permis d'obtenir le droit de parole. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1167512\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme il n'est pas sans le savoir, je n'\u00e9tais pas enclin \u00e0 lui accorder le droit de parole. En r\u00e9ponse au recours au R\u00e8glement qu'il a soulev\u00e9, je remarque que l'ouvrage de Marleau et Montpetit appuie mes propres h\u00e9sitations et je lui en lirai un extrait qui se trouve \u00e0 la page 476: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1167513\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Apr\u00e8s qu\u2019une motion a \u00e9t\u00e9 propos\u00e9e \u00e0 la Chambre, le Pr\u00e9sident donne d\u2019abord la parole au motionnaire. S\u2019il d\u00e9cide de ne pas parler, le motionnaire est n\u00e9anmoins r\u00e9put\u00e9 avoir parl\u00e9... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1167514\" data-originallang=\"en\">Questions et observations. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Windsor\u2014Tecumseh a la parole.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/6/17/the-acting-speaker-22/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/royal-galipeau/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/420/",
"procedural": true,
"source_id": "2541248",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Privilege",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/6/17/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2008%2F6%2F17%2F"
}
}