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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": "2025-06-19 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Kelly Block (Carlton Trail\u2014Eagle Creek, CPC)",
"fr": "Kelly Block (Sentier Carlton\u2014Eagle Creek, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8857225\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, old habits die hard. The <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> promised to cut consulting fees but is now raising them by 37% to a record-smashing $26 billion this year. That is $1,400 for every Canadian household. He is doing it knowing that Canadians have not received value for money from these Liberal insiders.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8857226\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Why is the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> breaking his promise and increasing spending on consultants? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8857225\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les vieilles habitudes ont la vie dure. Le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a>avait promis de r\u00e9duire les honoraires des consultants, mais il les augmente aujourd'hui de 37 % pour atteindre le montant record de 26 milliards de dollars cette ann\u00e9e, soit 1 400 $ pour chaque m\u00e9nage canadien. Il le fait en sachant que les Canadiens n'ont pas obtenu un bon rapport qualit\u00e9-prix de la part de ces initi\u00e9s lib\u00e9raux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8857226\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Pourquoi le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> rompt\u2011il sa promesse et augmente\u2011t\u2011il les d\u00e9penses consacr\u00e9es aux consultants? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/6/19/kelly-block-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kelly-block/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4339/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13107214",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Public Services and Procurement",
"fr": "Les services publics et l'approvisionnement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/6/19/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F6%2F19%2F"
}
}