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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": "2025-09-26 11:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Steven MacKinnon (Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. Steven MacKinnon (ministre des Transports et leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8883883\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I can guarantee one thing: We will never refuse a direct request from the Government of Ukraine, as we had with the free trade arrangements with Ukraine, which were voted against by the Conservatives. That was a pretty embarrassing moment for them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8883884\" data-originallang=\"en\">The other embarrassing moment for them always comes when we ask them what specific gun measures they would put in place. Canadians are demanding sensible restrictions on assault firearms that cause mass tragedies. We have a response to that. What is theirs?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8883883\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je peux garantir une chose: nous ne refuserons jamais une demande directe du gouvernement de l'Ukraine, comme nous l'avons montr\u00e9 avec l'accord de libre-\u00e9change avec l'Ukraine. Les conservateurs ont vot\u00e9 contre cet accord. Ce fut un moment plut\u00f4t embarrassant pour eux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8883884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ils sont aussi dans l'embarras chaque fois que nous leur demandons de nous dire pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment quelles mesures ils mettraient en place \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des armes \u00e0 feu. Les Canadiens exigent des restrictions sens\u00e9es \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des armes d'assaut qui sont utilis\u00e9es lors des tueries de masse. Nous avons une solution pour cela. Quelle est leur solution?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/26/steven-mackinnon-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steven-mackinnon/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4422/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13145589",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Firearms",
"fr": "Les armes \u00e0 feu"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/26/",
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}
}