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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": "2015-01-29 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East\u2014Stoney Creek, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Wayne Marston (Hamilton-Est\u2014Stoney Creek, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3957211\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, today on Parliament Hill Canadians are calling for action to free Raif Badawi . Sentenced in Saudi Arabia to a thousand lashes, he has received 50 lashes and faces hundreds more. Canadians fear for his very life. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3957212\" data-originallang=\"en\">How many lashes will it take before the government uses direct action? Canadians expect their government to take clear, strong stands against human rights violations. What kind of real pressure will the minister put on the Government of Saudi Arabia to pardon this free speech activist?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3957211\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, aujourd'hui, des Canadiens manifestent sur la Colline du Parlement pour r\u00e9clamer des mesures visant la lib\u00e9ration de Raif Badawi. Celui-ci a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 un millier de coups de fouet en Arabie saoudite. Il en a re\u00e7u 50 et des centaines d'autres l'attendent. Les Canadiens craignent pour sa vie. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3957212\" data-originallang=\"en\">Combien de coups de fouet devront claquer avant que le gouvernement prenne des mesures directes? Les Canadiens s'attendent \u00e0 ce que leur gouvernement se prononce fermement contre les violations des droits de la personne. Quel genre de pressions v\u00e9ritables le ministre entend-il exercer contre le gouvernement de l'Arabie saoudite pour que soit graci\u00e9 ce d\u00e9fenseur de la libert\u00e9 d'expression?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/1/29/wayne-marston-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/wayne-marston/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/492/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8562087",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Foreign Affairs",
"fr": "Les affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/1/29/",
"related": {
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}
}