OpenParliament (CA)

liveLegislatureGovernment

Civic-tech mirror of the Parliament of Canada — Hansard debates, bills, votes, MPs, committee meetings. Keyless.

8tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

search_debatesrequired: query

Hansard contributions.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
queryreqstring—
date_fromoptstring—
date_tooptstring—
politicianoptstring—
partyoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
offsetoptnumber—
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list_bills

Bills.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
sessionoptstring—
sponsoroptstring—
statusoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
offsetoptnumber—
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get_billrequired: session, number

Bill detail.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
sessionreqstring—
numberreqstring—
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list_votes

Recorded votes.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
sessionoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
offsetoptnumber—
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list_politicians

Current + historic MPs.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
currentoptboolean—
partyoptstring—
provinceoptstring—
nameoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
offsetoptnumber—
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get_politicianrequired: slug

Politician profile.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
slugreqstring—
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list_committees

House committees.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
sessionoptstring—
limitoptnumber—
offsetoptnumber—
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list_committee_meetings

Committee meetings.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
committee_slugoptstring—
date_fromoptstring—
date_tooptstring—
limitoptnumber—
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openparliament-ca/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openparliament-ca/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_debates","arguments":{"query": "hello"}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_debates", {"query":"example"});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("civic-tech mirror of the parliament of canada — hansard debates, bills, votes, mps, committee meetings");