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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": "2016-03-09 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. John McKay (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. John McKay (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre de la D\u00e9fense nationale, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4237416\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like the hon. member to explain what he does not get about democracy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4237417\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have had an election over the past year, the longest election campaign in Canadian history. The decision of the Canadian people was definitive on October 19.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4237418\" data-originallang=\"en\">We then had a debate here for four or five days, with 98 speakers. The vote this week was definitive.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4237419\" data-originallang=\"en\">What part of democracy does the hon. member not get? We have debated this and debated this. The people have spoken. It is unfortunate for the hon. member.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4237416\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 explique ce qu'il ne comprend pas au sujet de la d\u00e9mocratie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4237417\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a eu des \u00e9lections au cours de l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, et ce fut la plus longue campagne \u00e9lectorale de l'histoire du Canada. La d\u00e9cision des Canadiens a \u00e9t\u00e9 claire et nette le 19 octobre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4237418\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a aussi eu un d\u00e9bat ici pendant quatre ou cinq jours, dans le cadre duquel 98 intervenants ont pris la parole. Le vote cette semaine \u00e9tait sans appel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4237419\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quel aspect de la d\u00e9mocratie le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne comprend-il pas? Nous avons d\u00e9battu de la question encore et encore. Le peuple a parl\u00e9. C'est bien dommage pour le d\u00e9put\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/3/9/john-mckay-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-mckay/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1423/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8827687",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "National Defence",
"fr": "La d\u00e9fense nationale"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/3/9/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F3%2F9%2F"
}
}