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.

Content

Get this resource as raw JSON.

See the corresponding webpage.

{
    "time": "2025-06-04 14:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)",
        "fr": "Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8837913\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, \u201cCanadians will hold account by their experience at the grocery store\u201d are the words of the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a>, so let us see what the new stats say about his performance. Since the start of 2025, the price of rice has gone up 14%, the price of potatoes is up 13%, the price of infant formula is up 9% and beef is up a whopping 33%. By that measure, he is failing miserably. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8837914\" data-originallang=\"en\">The <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> claimed that he had a plan for inflation, but all Canadians got was another half a trillion dollars of spending with no budget. Where is it?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8837913\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, comme le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> a dit que les Canadiens jugeraient le gouvernement en fonction de leur exp\u00e9rience \u00e0 l'\u00e9picerie, voyons ce que les derni\u00e8res statistiques r\u00e9v\u00e8lent au sujet du rendement de celui-ci. Depuis le d\u00e9but de 2025, le prix du riz a augment\u00e9 de 14 %, le prix des pommes de terre a augment\u00e9 de 13 %, le prix du lait maternis\u00e9 a augment\u00e9 de 9 % et le prix de la viande de b\u0153uf a augment\u00e9 de 33 %. Selon ces r\u00e9sultats, il a \u00e9chou\u00e9 lamentablement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8837914\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> a soutenu qu'il avait un plan pour lutter contre l'inflation, mais tout ce que les Canadiens ont obtenu, c'est un demi-billion de dollars de d\u00e9penses suppl\u00e9mentaires sans aucun budget. O\u00f9 est le budget?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2025/6/4/melissa-lantsman-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/melissa-lantsman/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4604/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13083122",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Finance",
        "fr": "Les finances"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2025/6/4/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F6%2F4%2F"
    }
}