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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": "Scott Anderson (Vernon\u2014Lake Country\u2014Monashee, CPC)",
"fr": "Scott Anderson (Vernon\u2014Lake Country\u2014Monashee, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417074\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, this is one of the deepest debates in Canadian politics, between the rights and freedoms of citizens on one hand and the powers of government on the other hand. I wonder if my colleague could speculate on why the Liberals want to shut down debate like this, so pre-emptively.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417074\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, il s'agit l\u00e0 de l'un des d\u00e9bats les plus fondamentaux de la politique canadienne. Il oppose, d'une part, les droits et libert\u00e9s des citoyens et, d'autre part, les pouvoirs du gouvernement. Selon mon coll\u00e8gue, pourquoi les lib\u00e9raux tiennent-ils tant \u00e0 \u00e9touffer un d\u00e9bat comme celui-ci de mani\u00e8re aussi pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9e?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/scott-anderson-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-anderson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4850/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13590510",
"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"
}
}