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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": "2020-10-01 17:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Dan Albas",
"fr": "M. Dan Albas"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6273702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the member probably did not have the opportunity to hear my speech when we debated that bill.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273703\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservative Party will not stand in the way of Canadians who need the benefits. However, with all due respect to this place, we come here to represent our constituents and when the government prorogues Parliament, it denies its own members and ours, whether it be the Bloc, the NDP, or Conservative, the ability to represent our constituents. We had a scheduled sitting on August 22 when we could have debated this. There are a number of things in that bill\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6273702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 n'a probablement pas eu l'occasion d'entendre mon discours dans le cadre du d\u00e9bat sur ce projet de loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6273703\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Parti conservateur n'emp\u00eachera pas les Canadiens d'obtenir les prestations dont ils ont besoin. Toutefois, malgr\u00e9 tout le respect que j'ai pour cet endroit, nous venons ici pour repr\u00e9senter les citoyens de notre circonscription, et quand le gouvernement proroge le Parlement, il enl\u00e8ve tant aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s de son propre parti qu'\u00e0 ceux de l'opposition, que ce soit les bloquistes, les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates ou les conservateurs, la capacit\u00e9 de repr\u00e9senter les citoyens de leur circonscription. Nous devions si\u00e9ger le 22 ao\u00fbt et aurions pu d\u00e9battre de cette mesure \u00e0 cette occasion. Il y a de nombreuses choses dans ce projet de loi...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/10/1/dan-albas-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dan-albas/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4309/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10939133",
"h1": {
"en": "Speech From The Throne",
"fr": "Discours Du Tr\u00f4ne"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply",
"fr": "Reprise du d\u00e9bat sur l'Adresse en r\u00e9ponse"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/10/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F10%2F1%2F"
}
}