Guilbeault Code and Dataset: Canadian Parliamentary Debates on Environmental Policy

A 22.0 MB dataset of Canadian Hansard parliamentary debates, used to analyze political narratives on environmental issues via the Narrative Policy Framework. The dataset was created by Alexandre Millette and last updated on April 20, 2026. It is stored in R and RDS file formats and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing partisan differences in language use during environmental debates based on the description of partisan effects.
• Studying narrative alignment between MPs' speeches and official party frameworks based on the core research finding.
• Investigating the impact of specific ministerial appointments on political discourse based on the mention of Steven Guilbeault's appointment.
• Applying the Narrative Policy Framework to Canadian policy studies based on the methodological focus of the source paper.

Strengths

• Dataset size is explicitly 22.0 MB.
• Source data is the Canadian Hansard, a formal record of parliamentary debate.
• License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0.
• Last update date is provided as 2026-04-20.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Canadian Hansard (parliamentary debates).

Collection Method

Likely compiled and processed for narrative analysis using the Narrative Policy Framework.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 19:05:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada