open parliament

Open Parliament API tools: search federal bills by keyword/session/status, get bill details and sponsor info, search MPs by name/party/province/riding, get party member lists, retrieve House of Commons vote records, get individual MP voting records, browse Hansard debate transcripts, and full-text search Hansard speeches.

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All tools accept lang: "en" | "fr". Open each tool below for its source-derived parameters.

`parl_search_bills`

List Canadian federal bills filtered by session or status.

Use forbrowsing bills from a specific parliament session (e.g. '42-1') or

bill, legislation, federal, parliament, session, status, law, act,

Parameter	Type	Default
`keyword`	`str \| None`	`None`
`session`	`str \| None`	`None`
`status`	`str \| None`	`None`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_bill_details`

Get full details for a specific Canadian federal bill including sponsor and status history.

Use forretrieving complete information about a specific bill when you know

bill, detail, sponsor, status, history, vote, text, summary, parliament,

Parameter	Type	Default
`bill_id`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_politicians`

Search or list Canadian Members of Parliament by name, party, or province.

Use forfinding MPs by their name, political party affiliation, or the province

mp, member of parliament, politician, party, province, liberal, conservative,

Parameter	Type	Default
`name`	`str \| None`	`None`
`party`	`str \| None`	`None`
`province`	`str \| None`	`None`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_search_by_riding`

Find the MP or politician for a specific electoral riding in Canada.

Use forlooking up who represents a specific electoral district or riding

riding, electoral district, constituency, mp, representative,

Parameter	Type	Default
`riding`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_party_members`

Get the current Members of Parliament for a specific political party.

Use forlisting all current MPs belonging to a political party such as

party, caucus, members, liberal, conservative, ndp, bloc, green,

Parameter	Type	Default
`party`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_votes`

Get House of Commons vote records, optionally filtered by session, bill, or result.

Use forfinding how the House voted on bills or motions, with tally counts

vote, division, yea, nay, passed, failed, motion, bill, house of commons,

Parameter	Type	Default
`session`	`str \| None`	`None`
`bill`	`str \| None`	`None`
`result`	`str \| None`	`None`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_voting_record`

Get votes an MP participated in, with house-wide totals per division.

Use forseeing which recorded divisions an MP participated in and the

voting record, mp vote, division, politician, recorded vote,

Parameter	Type	Default
`politician`	`str`	`required`
`session`	`str \| None`	`None`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_debates`

Get Hansard debate transcripts from the House of Commons.

Use forretrieving transcripts of speeches and debate from the House of Commons

hansard, debate, transcript, speech, house of commons, mp speech,

Parameter	Type	Default
`date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`politician`	`str \| None`	`None`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_search_hansard`

Full-text search of Canadian Hansard debate transcripts.

Use forsearching across all Hansard speeches for specific topics, keywords,

hansard, search, full-text, speech, debate, transcript, keyword,

Parameter	Type	Default
`query`	`str`	`required`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`parl_get_ballots`

Get individual MP yea/nay ballots for a specific House of Commons vote.

Use forfinding exactly how an MP voted (yea/nay/paired) on a specific

ballot, individual vote, yea, nay, how voted, mp vote, division,

Parameter	Type	Default
`vote_id`	`str`	`required`
`politician`	`str \| None`	`None`
`page`	`int`	`1`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`