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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": "2018-03-29 12:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Linda Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Linda Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5331119\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am pleased again to table a petition, on behalf of Edmontonians, demanding that the government take action so that every vote counts. They are concerned that in a democracy, every vote and voter should count. Frequently our broken electoral system allows a party to win 100% of the power with less than 40% of the vote. The Liberal government has promised to change our electoral system, but time is running out if we want a fairer system before the next election. They call on the government to adopt a fair, proportional voting system so that the Parliament of Canada actually reflects how electors vote.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5331119\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai le plaisir de pr\u00e9senter, au nom de gens d'Edmonton, une autre p\u00e9tition qui demande au gouvernement d'agir afin que chaque vote compte. Les p\u00e9titionnaires consid\u00e8rent que, dans une d\u00e9mocratie, chaque vote et chaque \u00e9lecteur devraient compter. Souvent, notre syst\u00e8me \u00e9lectoral bancal permet \u00e0 un parti ayant r\u00e9colt\u00e9 moins de 40 % des votes de d\u00e9tenir la totalit\u00e9 du pouvoir. Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a promis de changer le syst\u00e8me \u00e9lectoral, et le temps presse si nous voulons qu'un syst\u00e8me plus juste soit en place avant les prochaines \u00e9lections. Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent donc au gouvernement d'adopter un mode de scrutin proportionnel plus juste, afin que le Parlement du Canada refl\u00e8te vraiment les votes des \u00e9lecteurs.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/3/29/linda-duncan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/linda-duncan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1029/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10044583",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Democratic Reform",
"fr": "La r\u00e9forme d\u00e9mocratique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/3/29/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F3%2F29%2F"
}
}