Hansard Marginalia is a satirical music podcast. Each release is an original song imagining the inner thoughts of a Canadian political figure, set to music. The voices are synthetic; the lyrics are original; none of the songs represent the actual positions of the actual people they imagine. The show is presented as a fictional archive. Since the founding of Confederation in 1867, so the conceit goes, The Dominion Recording Office has quietly captured the inner songs of Canadian political newsmakers. The recordings, in this conceit, were never released. A parliamentary clearance sub-committee that was supposed to approve each track for public distribution met three times in 1869 and then never again. Files moved between departments six times across the 20th century. By 1923, nobody was sure if the committee still officially existed. By 1971, the recordings sat in a basement in Tunney's Pasture filed under "miscellaneous audio." The committee was technically still on the books until 2017, when it was quietly delisted in an omnibus housekeeping bill. A junior archivist found the recordings in 2026 and asked her supervisor what to do. Her supervisor said "release them, I guess." Original lyrics. Synthetic voices. AI-assisted music. Not affiliated with any party, candidate, or government office.