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.
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": "2025-09-18 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Steven Guilbeault (ministre de l\u2019Identit\u00e9 et de la Culture canadiennes et ministre responsable des Langues officielles, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8874382\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada is responsible for defending one of the pillars of our democracy, that is, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. All across Canada, the government must stand up for the rights of all Canadians. It is our job to defend this charter and to ensure that everyone in this country is protected.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8874383\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> We are doing our job. The matter is before the Supreme Court and we will be following it closely.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8874382\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le gouvernement du Canada a la responsabilit\u00e9 de d\u00e9fendre l'un des piliers de notre d\u00e9mocratie, soit la Charte canadienne des droits et libert\u00e9s. Partout au Canada, il doit d\u00e9fendre les droits de tous les Canadiens et les Canadiennes. C'est notre travail de d\u00e9fendre cette charte et de nous assurer que toute personne dans ce pays est prot\u00e9g\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8874383\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Nous faisons notre job. La cause est devant la Cour supr\u00eame et nous allons la suivre de tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/18/steven-guilbeault-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steven-guilbeault/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4587/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13124299",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": "La justice"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/18/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F9%2F18%2F"
}
}