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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": "2013-03-18 15:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Frank Valeriote (Guelph, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Frank Valeriote (Guelph, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3244214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, hundreds of people from Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo, Sarnia and Grand Bend, Petrolia, St. Marys, London and throughout southwestern Ontario are deeply concerned about cuts to rail service from VIA Rail Canada. They are calling on the government to reverse its cuts to VIA Rail in the budget and re-enable optimal rail passenger service as it affects students, seniors and residents of smaller communities, and is an affordable, convenient and ecological travel alternative.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3244214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, des centaines de r\u00e9sidants de Guelph, de Kitchener, de Waterloo, de Sarnia, de Grand Bend, de Petrolia, de St. Marys, de London et de tout le Sud-Ouest de l'Ontario sont tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9occup\u00e9s par les compressions impos\u00e9es au service ferroviaire de VIA Rail Canada. Ils demandent au gouvernement de revenir sur sa d\u00e9cision de r\u00e9duire le budget consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 VIA Rail, et de r\u00e9tablir un service ferroviaire optimal pour les passagers dans l'int\u00e9r\u00eat des \u00e9tudiants, des a\u00een\u00e9s et des r\u00e9sidants des petites collectivit\u00e9s, puisqu'il s'agit d'un moyen de transport abordable, pratique et \u00e9cologique.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/3/18/frank-valeriote-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/frank-valeriote/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1214/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7929540",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Rail Transportation",
"fr": "Le transport ferroviaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/3/18/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2013%2F3%2F18%2F"
}
}