Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2007-11-22 12:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Russ Hiebert",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"803124\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803125\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I simply want to make the point I was trying to make a few minutes ago, that if this committee is going to investigate this matter, I do not want to see it turn into a circus, as it seemed to begin to do last Tuesday. We'd prefer that we investigate this matter in an orderly and reasonable fashion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803126\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think to do so we need the advice of Professor Johnston, who is currently setting the terms for the public inquiry that the government has chosen to proceed with. He's reviewing the volumes of documents relating to this matter as we speak, and I believe he would be in the best position to provide advice to this committee as to how to approach this subject.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803127\" data-originallang=\"en\"> He has a deadline of January 11, but there's certainly the possibility that he could be completing his work well before that date--in fact, even possibly in short order. If that's the case, what better way is there to approach this matter than to have the individual who's most aware of all the issues at stake come before this committee and provide us with his advice and his guidance as to how we should approach this?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803128\" data-originallang=\"en\">Therefore, it would be my recommendation, moving forward, that this committee adopt the procedure of having Mr. Johnston speak first before any other witnesses come before the committee. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"803124\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803125\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux simplement faire le commentaire que j'essayais de pr\u00e9senter il y a quelques instants, \u00e0 savoir que, si le comit\u00e9 d\u00e9cide de faire enqu\u00eate sur ce sujet, je ne voudrais pas que cela se transforme en spectacle, comme cela a sembl\u00e9 commencer \u00e0 l'\u00eatre mardi dernier. Il me semble pr\u00e9f\u00e9rable que cette enqu\u00eate se d\u00e9roule de fa\u00e7on ordonn\u00e9e et pond\u00e9r\u00e9e. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803126\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il me semble que pour y parvenir, nous aurions besoin des conseils de M. Johnston, qui est en train d'\u00e9tablir le mandat de l'enqu\u00eate publique que le gouvernement a demand\u00e9e. Il est en train d'examiner les documents volumineux qui se rapportent \u00e0 cette question, et je pense que c'est lui qui serait le mieux plac\u00e9 pour conseiller le comit\u00e9 sur la meilleure fa\u00e7on d'aborder ce sujet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803127\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il doit respecter la date butoir du 11 janvier, mais il est tout \u00e0 fait possible qu'il termine la t\u00e2che qui lui a \u00e9t\u00e9 demand\u00e9e bien avant cette date \u2014 en fait, il est m\u00eame possible qu'il le fasse tr\u00e8s bient\u00f4t. Si c'est le cas, je ne pense pas qu'il existe une meilleure fa\u00e7on d'aborder cette affaire que de demander \u00e0 la personne qui conna\u00eet le mieux toutes ces questions de venir devant le comit\u00e9 nous donner des conseils et des avis sur la fa\u00e7on d'aborder ce sujet. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"803128\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est pourquoi je recommande que le comit\u00e9 demande \u00e0 M. Johnston de venir t\u00e9moigner en premier \u00e0 ce sujet. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/ethics/39-2/3/russ-hiebert-7/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/russ-hiebert/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1288/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2214750",
    "document_url": "/committees/ethics/39-2/3/",
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