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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": "2022-10-25 15:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Speaker",
"fr": "Le Pr\u00e9sident"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7360014\" data-originallang=\"en\">If I can have members' attention, it is a very serious item and each and every member does take an oath. However, we do have a precedent set here on page 209, chapter 4 of the 3rd edition of Bosc and Gagnon. Let me quote it.</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7360015\" data-originallang=\"en\"> ...the Speaker was asked in 1990 to rule on the sincerity of a Member\u2019s solemn affirmation. Speaker Fraser ruled that the Chair was \u201cnot empowered to make a judgement on the circumstances or the sincerity with which a duly-elected Member takes the oath of allegiance. The significance of the oath to each Member is a matter of conscience and so it must remain\u201d. </p>\n</blockquote>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7360014\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais avoir l'attention des d\u00e9put\u00e9s, c'est un point tr\u00e8s important, tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s pr\u00eatent effectivement serment. Toutefois, il existe un pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent \u00e0 la page 209, chapitre 4 de la 3<sup>e</sup> \u00e9dition de Bosc et Gagnon. Je vais le citer.</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7360015\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] le Pr\u00e9sident a d\u00fb, en 1990, se prononcer sur la sinc\u00e9rit\u00e9 de l\u2019affirmation solennelle d\u2019un d\u00e9put\u00e9. Le Pr\u00e9sident Fraser a \u00e9tabli que le Pr\u00e9sident \u00ab n\u2019est pas autoris\u00e9 \u00e0 porter un jugement sur les circonstances dans lesquelles, ou la sinc\u00e9rit\u00e9 avec laquelle, un d\u00e9put\u00e9 d\u00fbment \u00e9lu pr\u00eate le serment d\u2019all\u00e9geance. L\u2019importance que rev\u00eat ce serment pour chaque d\u00e9put\u00e9 est affaire de conscience et il doit en \u00eatre ainsi \u00bb. </p>\n</blockquote>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/10/25/the-speaker-11/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/anthony-rota/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4404/",
"procedural": true,
"source_id": "11879717",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Points of Order",
"fr": "Recours au R\u00e8glement"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Speaker's Ruling",
"fr": "D\u00e9cision de la pr\u00e9sidence"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/10/25/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F10%2F25%2F"
}
}