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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": "2014-12-03 15:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Alexandrine Latendresse",
"fr": "Mme Alexandrine Latendresse"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3922651\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague. He does a fine job as committee chair, and it is always a pleasure working with him.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3922652\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to explain more clearly how the system works. First, Canadians will always be able to vote for an MP to represent their area of the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3922653\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Closed lists are not the only option. What we are proposing is an open list that would allow people to vote directly for the candidates they prefer. We have to trust that the public is capable of choosing the best candidates to represent them.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3922651\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier mon coll\u00e8gue. Il est un excellent pr\u00e9sident de comit\u00e9 et c'est toujours agr\u00e9able de travailler avec lui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3922652\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je tiens ici \u00e0 lui expliquer un peu mieux le fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me. Premi\u00e8rement, chaque Canadien pourra toujours aller voir un d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui repr\u00e9sente son coin de pays. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3922653\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les listes ferm\u00e9es ne sont pas la seule option. Ce que nous proposons, c'est une liste ouverte qui permet aux gens de voter eux-m\u00eames pour les candidats qu'ils pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent. Il faut faire confiance \u00e0 la population lorsque vient le temps de choisir les meilleurs candidats pour les repr\u00e9senter.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/12/3/alexandrine-latendresse-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/alexandrine-latendresse/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4058/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8539013",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Proportional Representation",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Repr\u00e9sentation proportionnelle"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/12/3/",
"related": {
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}
}