Politician

This is a single politician 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.

Notes

The other_info field is a direct copy of an internal catchall key-value store; beware that its structure may change frequently.

Content

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{
    "name": "Pat Perkins",
    "given_name": "Pat",
    "family_name": "Perkins",
    "gender": "female",
    "image": "/media/polpics/9299.jpg",
    "other_info": {
        "alternate_name": [
            "pat perkins"
        ],
        "constituency_offices": [
            "204-701 Rossland Road East (Main Office)\nWhitby ON  L1N 8Y9\nPhone: 1 905 665-8182"
        ],
        "favourite_word": [
            "pipelines"
        ],
        "parl_mp_id": [
            "86788"
        ],
        "parl_affil_id": [
            "208787",
            "208968",
            "208915",
            "208977"
        ]
    },
    "links": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/pat-perkins(86788)",
            "note": "Page on ourcommons.ca"
        },
        {
            "url": "http://www.patperkins.ca",
            "note": "Official site"
        }
    ],
    "email": "Pat.Perkins@parl.gc.ca",
    "voice": "1 613 992-6344",
    "fax": "1 613 992-8320",
    "memberships": [
        {
            "url": "/politicians/memberships/4179/",
            "start_date": "2014-11-17",
            "end_date": "2015-10-19",
            "party": {
                "name": {
                    "en": "Conservative Party of Canada"
                },
                "short_name": {
                    "en": "Conservative"
                }
            },
            "label": {
                "en": "Conservative MP for Whitby\u2014Oshawa"
            },
            "riding": {
                "name": {
                    "en": "Whitby\u2014Oshawa"
                },
                "province": "ON",
                "id": 35099
            }
        }
    ],
    "url": "/politicians/pat-perkins/",
    "related": {
        "speeches_url": "/speeches/?politician=pat-perkins",
        "ballots_url": "/votes/ballots/?politician=pat-perkins",
        "sponsored_bills_url": "/bills/?sponsor_politician=pat-perkins",
        "activity_rss_url": "/politicians/9299/rss/activity/"
    }
}