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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 20:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "John Brassard (Barrie South\u2014Innisfil, CPC)",
"fr": "John Brassard (Barrie-Sud\u2014Innisfil, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417045\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Madam Speaker, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"317964\" href=\"/politicians/ryan-turnbull/\" title=\"Ryan Turnbull\">Whitby</a> heckled that democracy is a waste of time. This is the prevailing attitude of the Liberal government. It is interesting to hear this\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417045\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"317964\" href=\"/politicians/ryan-turnbull/\" title=\"Ryan Turnbull\">Whitby</a> a fait du chahut en disant que la d\u00e9mocratie est une perte de temps. Voil\u00e0 l'attitude qui pr\u00e9vaut au sein du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral. Il est int\u00e9ressant d'entendre cela...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/john-brassard-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-brassard/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4725/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13590488",
"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"
}
}