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.

Content

Get this resource as raw JSON.

See the corresponding webpage.

{
    "time": "2009-04-24 11:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pierre Paquette (Joliette, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1421281\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, in the wake of the Federal Court ruling in the Omar Khadr case, the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> showed unbridled ideological stubbornness when he said he was considering filing an appeal even though he had not had time to study the ruling.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1421282\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Is the <a data-HoCid=\"128697\" href=\"/politicians/lawrence-cannon/\" title=\"Lawrence Cannon\">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> aware that because of the Conservatives' obstinacy and mean-spiritedness, Canada, in the eyes of the world, is shirking its obligations and violating the rights of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1421281\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 la suite du jugement de la Cour f\u00e9d\u00e9rale dans le cas d'Omar Khadr, le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> a fait preuve d'un ent\u00eatement id\u00e9ologique sans borne en d\u00e9clarant qu'il envisageait d'aller en appel tout en admettant ne pas avoir eu le temps d'\u00e9tudier le jugement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1421282\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"128697\" href=\"/politicians/lawrence-cannon/\" title=\"Lawrence Cannon\">ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res</a> est-il conscient qu'\u00e0 cause de l'obstination et de la mesquinerie des conservateurs, le Canada, \u00e0 la face du monde, contrevient \u00e0 ses obligations et viole les droits d'Omar Khadr, un citoyen canadien?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/4/24/pierre-paquette-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-paquette/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1781/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2717783",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Foreign Affairs",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/4/24/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F4%2F24%2F"
    }
}