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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": "2025-09-23 12:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Anthony Housefather",
"fr": "Anthony Housefather"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8877219\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I fully agree with my colleague. Even if the notwithstanding clause is used legitimately, it is very important, if a right is violated in a way that is not reasonable in a free and democratic society, that a court is able to advise the people in this respect. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8877220\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As we explained in the factum, it is very important for the court to study the manner in which this was done in order to rule on whether a right has been not only violated for a period of five years, but violated in a permanent and unacceptable manner.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8877219\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis tout \u00e0 fait d'accord avec ma coll\u00e8gue. M\u00eame si la disposition de d\u00e9rogation est utilis\u00e9e de mani\u00e8re l\u00e9gitime, il est tr\u00e8s important, si un droit est brim\u00e9 d'une mani\u00e8re qui n'est pas raisonnable dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 libre et d\u00e9mocratique, qu'une cour puisse en informer la population. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8877220\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Comme on l'a expliqu\u00e9 dans le m\u00e9moire, il est tr\u00e8s important que la cour puisse \u00e9tudier la mani\u00e8re dont cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 fait afin de d\u00e9clarer qu'un droit n'a pas seulement \u00e9t\u00e9 brim\u00e9 pendant une p\u00e9riode de cinq ans, mais qu'il sera brim\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re permanente et de fa\u00e7on inadmissible.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/23/anthony-housefather-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/anthony-housefather/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4438/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13133272",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Constitutional Powers of Quebec and the Provinces",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les pouvoirs constitutionnels du Qu\u00e9bec et des provinces"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/23/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F9%2F23%2F"
}
}