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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": "2012-10-16 12:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Judy Foote",
"fr": "Mme Judy Foote"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3005343\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, as my colleague has noted, this is really not about democracy at all. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3005344\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today, the <a data-HoCid=\"170693\" href=\"/politicians/peter-van-loan/\" title=\"Peter Van Loan\">government House leader</a> foolishly told Canadians not to concern themselves with procedure. It is crazy for the government House leader to say such a thing in Parliament, where we are all about procedure and making things happen in the right way and ensuring that what is discussed in the House among MPs of all parties should be about democracy.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3005343\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, comme l'a fait remarquer mon coll\u00e8gue, cela n'a rien \u00e0 voir avec la d\u00e9mocratie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3005344\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, le <a data-HoCid=\"170693\" href=\"/politicians/peter-van-loan/\" title=\"Peter Van Loan\">leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes</a> a b\u00eatement dit aux Canadiens de ne pas se pr\u00e9occuper de la proc\u00e9dure. C'est absurde que le leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre tienne pareils propos au Parlement, o\u00f9 la proc\u00e9dure est primordiale et nous permet de faire les choses correctement et de veiller \u00e0 ce que les d\u00e9bats entre les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de tous les partis se d\u00e9roulent d'abord et avant tout dans le respect de la d\u00e9mocratie.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/10/16/judy-foote-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/judy-foote/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1040/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7716484",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Omnibus Legislation",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les projets de loi omnibus"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/10/16/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2012%2F10%2F16%2F"
}
}