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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": "2011-11-03 15:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2549058\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the member talked from a principled position in terms of why the government had to bring forward this bill. I respect what it is he said, but that does not necessarily mean that I agree with a lot of his thoughts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2549059\" data-originallang=\"en\">I welcome the member's involvement in this debate. I would suggest that he should be just as welcoming of other members of this chamber getting involved and participating in the debate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2549060\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could the member explain to the House why the government has seen fit to allow just three or four hours of debate when there are 308 members of Parliament? We can see how restrictive that is going to be on 308 members, so imagine if this bill passed and there were 338 members.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2549061\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why would the government move a time allocation motion allowing for just two or three hours of debate? Does the member see the ramifications of preventing members from being able to voice their concerns?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2549058\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a invoqu\u00e9 une position de principe afin d'expliquer pourquoi le gouvernement se devait de pr\u00e9senter ce projet de loi. Je respecte ses propos, mais cela ne veut pas forc\u00e9ment dire que je suis d'accord avec lui sur la majorit\u00e9 de ses id\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2549059\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'appr\u00e9cie la participation du d\u00e9put\u00e9 au d\u00e9bat. Je l'inviterais \u00e0 appr\u00e9cier tout autant celle des autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2549060\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pourrait-il expliquer \u00e0 la Chambre pourquoi le gouvernement a jug\u00e9 \u00e0 propos de n'accorder que trois ou quatre heures de d\u00e9bat alors que le Parlement compte 308 d\u00e9put\u00e9s? Nous voyons combien cela sera contraignant pour 308 d\u00e9put\u00e9s, imaginez donc ce que ce sera si le projet de loi est adopt\u00e9 et qu'il y a 338 d\u00e9put\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2549061\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement a-t-il recours \u00e0 une motion d'attribution du temps ne permettant que deux ou trois heures de d\u00e9bat? Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 entrevoit-il les ramifications qu'aura le fait d'emp\u00eacher les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'exprimer leurs pr\u00e9occupations?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/11/3/kevin-lamoureux-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "4581368",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Fair Representation Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/11/3/",
"related": {
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}
}