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.

Content

Get this resource as raw JSON.

See the corresponding webpage.

{
    "time": "2015-06-17 14:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Dave Van Kesteren (Chatham-Kent\u2014Essex, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Dave Van Kesteren (Chatham-Kent\u2014Essex, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4163039\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday the NDP leader reaffirmed his support for higher CPP payroll taxes. The Liberal leader has also committed to imposing the Ontario Liberals' dramatic payroll tax increases. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4163040\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could the Minister of State for Finance please give the House an update on the government's position on these?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4163039\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, le chef du NPD a r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 qu'il est favorable \u00e0 la hausse des charges sociales li\u00e9es au R\u00e9gime de pensions du Canada. Le chef du Parti lib\u00e9ral s'est \u00e9galement engag\u00e9 \u00e0 imposer une hausse consid\u00e9rable des charges sociales comme celle propos\u00e9e par le Parti lib\u00e9ral de l'Ontario.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4163040\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le ministre d\u2019\u00c9tat aux Finances pourrait-il dire ce qu'en pense le gouvernement?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/6/17/dave-van-kesteren-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/dave-van-kesteren/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/601/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8754532",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Taxation",
        "fr": "La fiscalit\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/6/17/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F6%2F17%2F"
    }
}