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speech (committee meeting) resource
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{
"time": "2022-03-24 19:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Vernon White (Senator, Ontario, CSG)",
"fr": "L'hon. Vernon White (s\u00e9nateur, Ontario, GSC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7053066\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That's fine, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7053067\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you very much. I want to thank my newfound friend, Mr. Green. My perspective is that I don't want us not to consider bringing in outside legal counsel. In fact, I believe we may need that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7053068\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like first to see the scope of where we're going. A friend of mine once told me to never ask a lawyer to work for you until you tell him what work you want him to do, because that could cost us a lot.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7053069\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to see us come to an agreement that outside legal counsel may be appropriate, but I don't think we should hire outside legal counsel until we actually see what the scope of the work is going to be. That will allow us to get that out of the way.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7053066\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce n'est pas grave, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7053067\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup. Je tiens \u00e0 remercier mon nouvel ami, M. Green. Je suis d'avis qu'il ne faut pas renoncer \u00e0 la possibilit\u00e9 de faire appel \u00e0 une expertise juridique externe. Je crois que nous pourrions en avoir besoin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7053068\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais cependant conna\u00eetre d'abord la port\u00e9e de notre travail. Un ami m'a d\u00e9j\u00e0 conseill\u00e9 de ne jamais faire appel aux services d'un avocat sans pouvoir lui dire d'abord exactement ce que j'attends de lui, sans quoi les honoraires pourraient grimper en fl\u00e8che.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7053069\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je souhaite que nous puissions nous entendre quant \u00e0 la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'avoir recours \u00e0 un conseiller juridique externe, mais je ne pense pas que nous devrions le faire avant de conna\u00eetre exactement la port\u00e9e de notre travail. Ce serait pour nous une question de moins \u00e0 r\u00e9gler.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/declaration-of-emergency/44-1/2/vernon-white-1/",
"politician_url": null,
"politician_membership_url": null,
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11585693",
"document_url": "/committees/declaration-of-emergency/44-1/2/",
"related": {
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}
}