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{
"time": "2011-10-18 10:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Alexandre Boulerice",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2520106\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Okay. You're talking about your specific case.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2520107\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The information commissioner has raised a number of issues regarding a black hole in several departments of the Conservative government when it comes to accountability and responsibility obligations. If there's time, I think that some of my colleagues will ask you questions about that. Some departments' grades in terms of transparency are appalling.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2520108\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Calkins said the following before this committee:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2520109\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We've got a taxpayer-funded organization using taxpayers' funds to put up a defence, versus a taxpayer-funded office of the (information commissioner), fighting each other in a court paid for by the taxpayers of Canada. This is not in the best interests of taxpayers. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2520110\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We agree. However, that same Conservative government fought the information commissioner all the way to the Supreme Court in order to protect ministers and stop them from disclosing certain information. We are familiar with this government's habits, one of them being its ability to misappropriate $50 million through a hidden process enabling it to distribute the money in a minister's municipalities, away from the Auditor General's watchful eye. That money was distributed without any kind of a record or paper trail to speak of. In addition, the presence of federal officials was concealed. Don't you think that, generally speaking, this government has a problem in terms of its transparency and accountability obligations?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2520106\" data-originallang=\"fr\">D'accord. Vous parlez de votre cas personnel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2520107\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La commissaire \u00e0 l'information a soulev\u00e9 plusieurs questions \u00e0 propos du trou noir qu'on retrouve dans plusieurs minist\u00e8res du gouvernement conservateur pour ce qui est de l'obligation de rendre des comptes et de la responsabilit\u00e9. Si le temps le permet, je crois que certains de mes coll\u00e8gues vont vous poser des questions \u00e0 ce sujet. Certains minist\u00e8res obtiennent des notes d\u00e9plorables en ce qui concerne leur transparence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2520108\" data-originallang=\"fr\">M. Calkins a d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9clar\u00e9 ce qui suit devant ce comit\u00e9:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2520109\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Nous sommes en pr\u00e9sence d'une organisation financ\u00e9e par les contribuables qui utilise l'argent des contribuables pour se d\u00e9fendre contre un organisme financ\u00e9 par les contribuables, \u00e0 savoir le Commissariat \u00e0 l'information du Canada, et ces deux entit\u00e9s s'affrontent devant un tribunal financ\u00e9 par les contribuables canadiens. Tout cela n'est pas dans l'int\u00e9r\u00eat sup\u00e9rieur des contribuables. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2520110\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On est d'accord. Pourtant, ce m\u00eame gouvernement conservateur a combattu la commissaire \u00e0 l'information jusqu'\u00e0 la Cour supr\u00eame pour prot\u00e9ger les ministres et les emp\u00eacher de d\u00e9voiler certaines informations. On conna\u00eet les habitudes de ce gouvernement, entre autres sa capacit\u00e9 de d\u00e9tourner 50 millions de dollars au moyen d'un processus cach\u00e9 permettant de distribuer l'argent dans les municipalit\u00e9s d'un ministre, \u00e0 l'abri des regards du v\u00e9rificateur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, sans qu'il y ait le moindre proc\u00e8s-verbal ou trace \u00e9crite de cette distribution d'argent. En plus, on a cach\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sence de fonctionnaires f\u00e9d\u00e9raux. Ne trouvez-vous pas que ce gouvernement a un probl\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9 pour ce qui est de sa transparence et de son obligation de rendre des comptes?</p>"
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