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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 20:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ellis Ross (Skeena\u2014Bulkley Valley, CPC)",
"fr": "Ellis Ross (Skeena\u2014Bulkley Valley, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417121\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Madam Speaker, the member gave a knowledgeable speech in terms of democracy and the way this place is supposed to work. In fact, when I came here, the Liberal government had a minority government, and things were working. It was getting comments from all the MPs in this place, and there was compromise and amendments in committee. Now that the Liberals have a majority, they stacked their majority and now they do not allow debate on any amendments from any party. By my numbers, there are 174 Liberal members who want to force this bill through, but there are 169 MPs from every party who want to fix part 2. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417122\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the member see the fault in this? Can she see how this is wrong and how it is working against the democratic system?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417121\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a prononc\u00e9 un discours qui t\u00e9moigne d'une grande connaissance de la d\u00e9mocratie et du fonctionnement de la Chambre. En effet, lorsque je suis arriv\u00e9 ici, le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral \u00e9tait minoritaire, et les choses fonctionnaient bien. Il tenait compte des observations de tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s, il faisait des compromis et il acceptait des amendements en comit\u00e9. Maintenant que les lib\u00e9raux sont majoritaires, ils exploitent leur majorit\u00e9, \u00e9touffent le d\u00e9bat et rejettent cat\u00e9goriquement tout amendement venant des autres partis. D'apr\u00e8s mes calculs, 174 d\u00e9put\u00e9s lib\u00e9raux veulent faire adopter ce projet de loi de force, mais 169 d\u00e9put\u00e9s de tous les partis souhaitent apporter des modifications \u00e0 la partie 2.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417122\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e voit-elle en quoi cela pose probl\u00e8me? Se rend-elle compte \u00e0 quel point cela est inacceptable et va \u00e0 l'encontre du syst\u00e8me d\u00e9mocratique?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/ellis-ross-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/ellis-ross/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4846/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13590556",
"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"
}
}