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{
"time": "2016-09-30 11:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Larry Maguire (Brandon\u2014Souris, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Larry Maguire (Brandon\u2014Souris, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4488193\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, last Saturday, I hosted an open house on electoral reform to hear what Canadians have to say. Let me tell members the results.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4488194\" data-originallang=\"en\">After tabulating the responses from my town hall, there was a clear majority who want a referendum, and over 800 people in my riding have now petitioned to have a vote before any change in electing MPs is implemented.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4488195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> listen to their demands and stop denying them their right to have a vote in a referendum?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4488193\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, samedi dernier, j'ai organis\u00e9 une journ\u00e9e portes ouvertes pour entendre ce que les Canadiens avaient \u00e0 dire sur la r\u00e9forme \u00e9lectorale. Je tiens \u00e0 informer les d\u00e9put\u00e9s des r\u00e9sultats.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4488194\" data-originallang=\"en\">Apr\u00e8s avoir compil\u00e9 les r\u00e9ponses obtenues, il appara\u00eet qu'une nette majorit\u00e9 souhaite un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum, et plus de 800 habitants de ma circonscription ont maintenant sign\u00e9 une p\u00e9tition demandant la tenue d'un vote avant la modification du processus \u00e9lectoral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4488195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> \u00e9coutera-t-il leurs demandes et arr\u00eatera-t-il de les priver de leur droit de voter lors d'un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/9/30/larry-maguire-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/larry-maguire/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4161/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9104063",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Democratic Reform",
"fr": "La r\u00e9forme d\u00e9mocratique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/9/30/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F9%2F30%2F"
}
}