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Every story on Hansard Files is built from the actual parliamentary record. The Hansard. Committee transcripts. Government audits. Declassified documents. Not the press release, not the clip, not the party line.
If you are new here, these five pieces are the best place to start.
THE WEEKLY RECORD
(What is actually happening in Ottawa right now)
Fifty-eight people died in Driver Inc. trucking crashes. Parliament had the evidence, the testimony, and the votes to act. Then came the filibuster. A close reading of what the committee record actually shows.
The Canada Strong fund moved through a new majority’s first parliamentary week. Built from the spring economic update, committee testimony, and Senate debate transcripts.
From grieving mothers fighting the CRA to Indigenous families facing legal extinction. What witnesses actually said in committee rooms that never made the evening news.
FROM THE FILES
(Canadian history told from the primary record)
The ghosts of 1969 walked the floor of the House of Commons. A close reading of Bill C-19 and the expropriation history that haunts every major Canadian infrastructure project.
In 1944, Canadian officers gathered in a pine wood to shoot their own pistols at ammunition boxes. The classified file that resulted was buried for decades. This is what it said.
Every piece includes full source citations at the bottom: Hansard volume, committee Evidence number, report title. Everything is verifiable. That is the point.
Everything is free to read. No paywall, no exceptions.
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