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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 16:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, GP)",
"fr": "Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, PV)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9416570\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to thank a local grassroots activist for proportional representation who has asked me to present a number of these petitions on the subject of our current first-past-the-post voting system. I want to thank Shelagh Levey for collecting so many signatures. Her petition calls for an immediate adoption of a fair voting system, such as what is in place in most democracies around the world, before the next election. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9416570\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier une d\u00e9fenseure locale de la repr\u00e9sentation proportionnelle qui m\u2019a demand\u00e9 de pr\u00e9senter plusieurs p\u00e9titions sur notre syst\u00e8me \u00e9lectoral actuel, qui est un syst\u00e8me majoritaire uninominal \u00e0 un tour. Je remercie Shelagh Levey d\u2019avoir recueilli autant de signatures. Sa p\u00e9tition demande l\u2019adoption imm\u00e9diate d\u2019un syst\u00e8me \u00e9lectoral \u00e9quitable, tel que celui en vigueur dans la plupart des d\u00e9mocraties du monde, et ce, avant les prochaines \u00e9lections.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/elizabeth-may-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/elizabeth-may/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4108/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13589990",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Electoral Reform",
"fr": "La r\u00e9forme \u00e9lectorale"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/6/17/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F6%2F17%2F"
}
}