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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": "2019-05-07 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Robert Oliphant (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Robert Oliphant (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5889380\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Northwest Passage is a Canadian passage; it is internationally recognized. Our government is standing up to defend our interests. Our <a data-HoCid=\"229209\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> reasserted that today. Canadian sovereignty in the north is long-standing and well established. It is where Canadians live and work. I lived there for six years. We will continue to defend our sovereignty, the peoples and the communities in the north and our national interests.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5889380\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le passage du Nord-Ouest est canadien; c'est un fait reconnu partout dans le monde. Le gouvernement d\u00e9fend les int\u00e9r\u00eats du pays. La <a data-HoCid=\"229209\" href=\"/politicians/chrystia-freeland/\" title=\"Chrystia Freeland\">ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res</a> a r\u00e9affirm\u00e9 ce fait aujourd'hui. La souverainet\u00e9 du Canada dans l'Arctique est bien \u00e9tablie et de longue date. Des Canadiens y vivent et y travaillent. J'y ai habit\u00e9 pendant six ans. Nous allons continuer de d\u00e9fendre notre souverainet\u00e9, les peuples et les communaut\u00e9s du Nord ainsi que les int\u00e9r\u00eats du pays. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/5/7/rob-oliphant-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/rob-oliphant/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4278/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10609184",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Foreign Affairs",
"fr": "Les affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/5/7/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2019%2F5%2F7%2F"
}
}