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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": "2009-02-09 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Lawrence Cannon (Minister of Foreign Affairs, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1273479\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we had the opportunity, as parliamentarians, to debate this issue last week. As a government, we were able to indicate what actions the Government of Canada has taken. The Government of Canada has called for an immediate ceasefire. My colleague, the <a data-HoCid=\"111559\" href=\"/politicians/bev-oda/\" title=\"Bev Oda\">Minister of International Cooperation</a>, has put forward amounts of money that will help the people who are caught up in this humanitarian turmoil.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273480\" data-originallang=\"en\">We are continuing to monitor the situation. It is of grave concern to us and we are following the file.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1273479\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous avons eu l'occasion la semaine derni\u00e8re de d\u00e9battre cette question, en tant que parlementaires. Le gouvernement a \u00e9t\u00e9 en mesure de pr\u00e9ciser les mesures qu'il a prises. Le gouvernement du Canada a demand\u00e9 un cessez-le-feu imm\u00e9diat. Ma coll\u00e8gue, la <a data-HoCid=\"111559\" href=\"/politicians/bev-oda/\" title=\"Bev Oda\">ministre de la Coop\u00e9ration internationale</a>, a avanc\u00e9 des sommes d'argent qui aideront les victimes de cette crise humanitaire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273480\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous continuons \u00e0 surveiller la situation. Elle nous pr\u00e9occupe grandement, et nous en suivons tous les d\u00e9veloppements.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/2/9/lawrence-cannon-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/lawrence-cannon/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/364/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2589940",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Sri Lanka",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/2/9/",
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}