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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": "2026-02-24 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Deputy Speaker",
"fr": "Le vice-pr\u00e9sident"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9179988\" data-originallang=\"en\">Before I continue with questions and comments, I want to remind the parliamentary secretary that just because he uses an acronym instead of the full word, it is basically what I heard the chief government whip whisper to him, that he is still doing indirectly what he cannot do directly. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9179989\" data-originallang=\"en\">The particular word you used is not a parliamentary word.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9179990\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would just offer the member the opportunity to retract the statement.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9179988\" data-originallang=\"en\">Avant de poursuivre les questions et observations, je tiens \u00e0 rappeler au secr\u00e9taire parlementaire que m\u00eame s'il \u00e9p\u00e8le un mot au lieu de le prononcer \u2014 celui \u00e0 vrai dire que j'ai entendu le whip en chef du gouvernement lui chuchoter \u2014, il fait n\u00e9anmoins indirectement ce qu'il ne doit pas faire directement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9179989\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le mot que vous avez utilis\u00e9 n'est pas parlementaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9179990\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais simplement offrir au d\u00e9put\u00e9 l'occasion de retirer ses paroles.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/2/24/the-deputy-speaker-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/tom-kmiec/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4224/",
"procedural": true,
"source_id": "13372812",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Interim Federal Health Program",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Le Programme f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de sant\u00e9 int\u00e9rimaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/2/24/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F2%2F24%2F"
}
}