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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": "2025-09-15 17:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Anthony Housefather (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience, Lib.)",
"fr": "Anthony Housefather (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre de la Gestion des urgences et de la R\u00e9silience des communaut\u00e9s, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8870966\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my understanding is that the Canada Elections Act requires somebody to swear that they are voting in the last riding that they lived in in Canada, and they have to disclose that address. Would that not be correct, and would that not prevent some of what the hon. member is suggesting might happen? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8870966\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, si je comprends bien, selon la Loi \u00e9lectorale du Canada, une personne doit jurer qu'elle vote dans la derni\u00e8re circonscription o\u00f9 elle a v\u00e9cu au Canada et elle doit divulguer son adresse. N'est-ce pas exact et est-ce que cela ne pr\u00e9viendrait pas en partie ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 laisse entendre?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/15/anthony-housefather-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/anthony-housefather/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4438/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13117217",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Citizenship Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/15/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F9%2F15%2F"
}
}