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speech (house debate) resource
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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": "2025-11-24 15:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Speaker",
"fr": "Le Pr\u00e9sident"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9011584\" data-originallang=\"en\">In any event, it is true that when it comes to requests for emergency debates, it is a ruling of the Speaker. If the Chair rules against an emergency debate, it does not mean that the subject matter is not important, only that the specific criteria for granting one have not been met.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9011584\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 tout le moins, dans le cas des demandes de d\u00e9bats d'urgence, la d\u00e9cision revient au Pr\u00e9sident. Si le Pr\u00e9sident rejette une demande de d\u00e9bat d'urgence, cela ne signifie pas que le sujet n'est pas important, mais seulement que les crit\u00e8res pour accorder la tenue d'un d\u00e9bat d'urgence ne sont pas remplis. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/24/the-speaker-16/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/francis-scarpaleggia/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1480/",
"procedural": true,
"source_id": "13258180",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Request for Emergency Debate",
"fr": "Demande de d\u00e9bat d'urgence"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Speaker's Ruling",
"fr": "D\u00e9cision de la pr\u00e9sidence"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/24/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F11%2F24%2F"
}
}