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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": "2023-06-13 21:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus",
"fr": "M. Charlie Angus"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7858746\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when we are representing our people, there are days when it just does not make sense to them that we are not there. There were so many times in my previous life, before COVID, when I was not there for major issues that happened in my region. People did not understand that there was a vote on a private member's bill that I had to be at. How do I tell them that? I am still kicking myself for not being at the funeral of Grand Chief Stan Louttit. He was such an important voice in our region, but I was not there because my whip said there was a vote on a private member's bill. I do not even know what we voted on, but I remember I was not there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7858747\" data-originallang=\"en\">These are the impossible situations we are put in, in a democracy. We are there to represent our people. We are there for the tough times and we are there for the good times, but we are there to vote. There are times when maybe we can do both and represent a better level of democracy.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7858746\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, lorsque nous repr\u00e9sentons nos concitoyens, il y a des jours o\u00f9 ils ne peuvent tout simplement pas comprendre pourquoi nous ne sommes pas l\u00e0. Avant la COVID, dans mon autre vie, il y a eu tellement d'occasions o\u00f9 je n'ai pas \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent pour des \u00e9v\u00e9nements importants qui se d\u00e9roulaient dans ma r\u00e9gion. Les gens ne comprenaient pas que je devais participer \u00e0 un vote sur un projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire. Comment leur expliquer cela? Je m'en veux encore de ne pas avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent aux fun\u00e9railles du grand chef Stan Louttit. Il \u00e9tait une voix tr\u00e8s importante dans notre r\u00e9gion, mais je n'\u00e9tais pas pr\u00e9sent parce que mon whip m'avait dit qu'il y avait un vote sur un projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire. Je ne sais m\u00eame pas sur quoi portait ce projet de loi, mais je me souviens que je n'ai pas particip\u00e9 \u00e0 ces fun\u00e9railles. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7858747\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous nous retrouvons dans des situations impossibles dans une d\u00e9mocratie. Nous sommes l\u00e0 pour repr\u00e9senter nos concitoyens. Nous sommes l\u00e0 pendant les moments difficiles et pendant les moments heureux, mais nous sommes l\u00e0 pour voter. Il y a des moments o\u00f9 nous pourrions peut-\u00eatre faire les deux et repr\u00e9senter un meilleur niveau de d\u00e9mocratie. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/6/13/charlie-angus-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12290447",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Business No. 26\u2014Amendments to the Standing Orders",
"fr": "L'affaire \u00e9manant du gouvernement no 26 \u2014 Les modifications au R\u00e8glement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/6/13/",
"related": {
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}
}