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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 21:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "John Brassard (Barrie South\u2014Innisfil, CPC)",
"fr": "John Brassard (Barrie-Sud\u2014Innisfil, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417185\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, this goes back to April 2025, when Canadians elected a minority government to provide oversight, accountability and transparency so that the opposition parties could hold them to account and provide that oversight. What we have seen since this manufactured, transactional majority is that this heavy-handed hammer has come down on this place, which has limited all other parties' ability, as an opposition, to do that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417186\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am wondering if the hon. member would speak to the impact this is having, not only on our parliamentary democracy, but on the decline of democracy in general.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417185\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je repense \u00e0 avril 2025, lorsque les Canadiens ont \u00e9lu un gouvernement minoritaire pour qu'il y ait une surveillance, une reddition de comptes et de la transparence et que les partis de l'opposition puissent demander des comptes et assurer cette surveillance. Ce que nous avons vu depuis cette majorit\u00e9 transactionnelle et artificielle, c'est qu'on a port\u00e9 un dur coup \u00e0 la Chambre, ce qui a limit\u00e9 la capacit\u00e9 de tous les autres partis de l'opposition \u00e0 remplir ce r\u00f4le.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417186\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e pourrait parler des r\u00e9percussions de cette situation, non seulement sur notre d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire, mais aussi sur le d\u00e9clin de la d\u00e9mocratie en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/john-brassard-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-brassard/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4725/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13590617",
"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"
}
}