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{
"time": "2006-05-30 08:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Alan Tonks (York South\u2014Weston, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"82227\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Well, I'm not up to the stickhandling of that family. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82228\" data-originallang=\"en\">Welcome, Mr. Conacher and Mr. McCandless. Both of you have stressed that whistle-blowers must be protected. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. McCandless, you've talked about a culture of responsibility. You've also focused, it appears at least to me, on that culture of responsibility being entrenched in two ways, one according to legislation through the deputy minister being the financially accountable officer, and you go one step further in completing the accountability loop by having that officer take what you've described as responsibility for reporting on his or her whistle-blowing record in terms of any incidents of inappropriate financial conduct or otherwise coming before that officer in carrying on duties. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82230\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if you could expand on that, because you go one step further and you say that officer should report to Parliament through a special committee. You know this committee is wrestling with how you increase the oversight of the committee system, or some part of the parliamentary structure, and how you complete the accountability loop in reporting directly to Parliament. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82231\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could you expand on that just a little bit more, please, for the committee?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"82227\" data-originallang=\"en\">Eh bien, je ne sais pas patiner comme dans cette famille.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82228\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bienvenue, monsieur Conacher et monsieur McCandless. Vous avez fait valoir tous les deux qu'il faut prot\u00e9ger les d\u00e9nonciateurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous avez parl\u00e9 d'une culture de la responsabilit\u00e9. Vous vous \u00eates \u00e9galement attard\u00e9s, du moins me semble-t-il, sur le fait que cette culture de la responsabilit\u00e9 doit \u00eatre ancr\u00e9e de deux fa\u00e7ons, l'une en vertu de la loi o\u00f9 le sous-ministre se trouve \u00e0 \u00eatre l'agent responsable des finances, et vous faites un pas de plus pour vous assurer que cette responsabilit\u00e9 est compl\u00e8te en obligeant cet agent \u00e0 assumer ce que vous appelez la responsabilit\u00e9 de rendre compte des d\u00e9nonciations qu'il re\u00e7oit pour toute malversation financi\u00e8re ou autre dont il est saisi dans le cadre de ses responsabilit\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82230\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourriez-vous nous donner plus de d\u00e9tails \u00e0 ce sujet, parce que vous allez plus loin et vous dites que cet agent doit rendre des comptes aux l\u00e9gislateurs par l'entremise d'un comit\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial. Vous savez que notre comit\u00e9 s'interroge sur la mani\u00e8re d'accro\u00eetre les pouvoirs de surveillance des comit\u00e9s, ou d'une partie quelconque de la structure parlementaire, et sur la mani\u00e8re dont on peut assurer la reddition de comptes par des rapports qui sont adress\u00e9s directement aux l\u00e9gislateurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"82231\" data-originallang=\"en\">Auriez-vous l'obligeance de nous en parler un peu plus?</p>"
},
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