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": "2026-05-25 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London South, CPC)",
"fr": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London-Sud, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9349717\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, when the Liberals treat Canadians like a cash cow and spend so irresponsibly, they are adding more money to the national credit card, which means we have to put more money toward repaying the debt than funding public services.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9349718\" data-originallang=\"fr\">What are the consequences of this kind of spending?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9349717\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, quand les lib\u00e9raux traitent les Canadiens comme une vache \u00e0 lait et d\u00e9pensent de fa\u00e7on aussi irresponsable, ils ajoutent plus d'argent \u00e0 la carte de cr\u00e9dit nationale, ce qui veut dire qu'on doit consacrer plus d'argent au paiement de la dette qu'aux services publics.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9349718\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quelles sont les cons\u00e9quences de ce genre de d\u00e9penses?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/5/25/andrew-lawton-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-lawton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4738/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13515386",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Spring Economic Update 2026 Implementation Act",
"fr": "Loi d'ex\u00e9cution de la mise \u00e0 jour \u00e9conomique du printemps 2026"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/5/25/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F5%2F25%2F"
}
}