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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": "2026-06-17 20:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Chak Au",
"fr": "Chak Au"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417068\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, with a bill that is so complex and complicated, we need time to understand it thoroughly and assess each portion of the bill so that we can address the concerns being raised and the questions being asked by the public and by professionals. I want to ask whether the member on the other side agrees that it is not democratic that we had not even had the chance to start debating clause-by-clause on part 2, and the government chose to shut down the discussion.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417068\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, face \u00e0 un projet de loi aussi complexe et compliqu\u00e9, il nous faut du temps pour bien le comprendre et \u00e9valuer chacune de ses parties afin de pouvoir r\u00e9pondre aux pr\u00e9occupations soulev\u00e9es et aux questions pos\u00e9es par le public et par les professionnels. Je voudrais demander \u00e0 la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face si elle convient qu'il n'est pas d\u00e9mocratique que nous n'ayons m\u00eame pas eu l'occasion d'entamer l'\u00e9tude article par article de la partie 2 avant que le gouvernement d\u00e9cide de couper court au d\u00e9bat.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/chak-au-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/chak-au/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4843/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13590502",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Business No. 13\u2014Proceedings on Bill C\u201122",
"fr": "L'affaire \u00e9manant du gouvernement no 13 \u2014 Les d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations sur le projet de loi C\u201122"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/6/17/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F6%2F17%2F"
}
}