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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": "2026-05-07 12:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Anthony Housefather (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience, Lib.)",
"fr": "Anthony Housefather (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre de la Gestion des urgences et de la R\u00e9silience des communaut\u00e9s, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9312658\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a> spoke very clearly in this House, making it very clear that the government was going to defend private property rights and that the government immediately appealed the decision.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9312659\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question is for the hon. member whose speech I just listened to. I felt there were multiple times when it sank into disinformation. Does the hon. member believe a parliamentary committee would develop arguments for the court that are better than those of the expert constitutional lawyers who are currently arguing on behalf of the Government of Canada and being instructed to use every type of argument available to defend property rights?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9312658\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a> a dit tr\u00e8s clairement \u00e0 la Chambre que le gouvernement allait d\u00e9fendre le droit priv\u00e9 de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 et que le gouvernement avait imm\u00e9diatement port\u00e9 la d\u00e9cision en appel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9312659\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma question s'adresse au d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui vient de prendre la parole. \u00c0 plusieurs reprises, j'ai eu l'impression qu'il sombrait dans la d\u00e9sinformation. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 croit\u2011il qu'un comit\u00e9 parlementaire pourrait formuler des arguments plus convaincants que ceux des constitutionnalistes chevronn\u00e9s qui repr\u00e9sentent actuellement le gouvernement du Canada et qui ont pour mandat d'utiliser l'\u00e9ventail complet des moyens juridiques afin de d\u00e9fendre le droit priv\u00e9 de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/5/7/anthony-housefather-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/anthony-housefather/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4438/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13504506",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Protection of Private Property Rights in Canada",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Protection des droits de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e au Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/5/7/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F5%2F7%2F"
}
}