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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": "2026-04-27 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Wayne Long (Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions), Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Wayne Long (secr\u00e9taire d\u2019\u00c9tat (Agence du revenu du Canada et Institutions financi\u00e8res), Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9275819\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the member's leader talks about presence in the House. He has been here for 22 years and has produced nothing. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9275820\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us look at some economic facts: best fiscal position in the G7, second-fastest growing economy in the G7, best net debt-to-GDP in the G7 and wages outpacing inflation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9275821\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is time for that member's leader and that party to stop the bizarre press conferences, stop the podcast tours and help us build Canada strong. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9275819\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le chef de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e parle de la pr\u00e9sence \u00e0 la Chambre. Il est ici depuis 22 ans et il n'a rien produit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9275820\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voyons quelques faits concernant l'\u00e9conomie. Le Canada a la meilleure situation financi\u00e8re des pays du G7, l'\u00e9conomie qui conna\u00eet la deuxi\u00e8me croissance en importance parmi les pays du G7, le meilleur ratio dette nette-PIB des pays du G7 et des salaires qui augmentent plus vite que l'inflation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9275821\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est temps que le chef de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e et son parti mettent fin aux conf\u00e9rences de presse bizarres, qu'ils cessent leurs tourn\u00e9es des balados et qu'ils nous aident \u00e0 b\u00e2tir un Canada fort.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/4/27/wayne-long-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/wayne-long/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4685/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13472362",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Finance",
"fr": "Les finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/4/27/",
"related": {
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}
}