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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": "2016-05-02 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. Dominic LeBlanc (leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4316976\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we are following the ruling of your predecessor. As you will know, prior to that ruling, independent MPs could not propose amendments at committees.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4316977\" data-originallang=\"en\">We are trying to ensure that members of Parliament from non-recognized parties in this House have an opportunity to play a constructive role in the legislative process at the committee stage, and we are giving MPs from non-recognized parties a bigger role in those committees.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4316976\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous suivons la d\u00e9cision de votre pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur. Comme vous le savez, avant cette d\u00e9cision, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s ind\u00e9pendants ne pouvaient pas proposer d'amendements aux comit\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4316977\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous voulons que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s des partis non reconnus puissent participer activement au processus l\u00e9gislatif \u00e0 l'\u00e9tape de l'\u00e9tude en comit\u00e9; nous leur donnons donc un r\u00f4le plus important au sein des comit\u00e9s.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/5/2/dominic-leblanc-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dominic-leblanc/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1314/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8884717",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/5/2/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F5%2F2%2F"
}
}