Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2022-05-05 15:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Robert Oliphant (Don Valley West, Lib.)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Robert Oliphant (Don Valley-Ouest, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7151517\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151518\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to thank Mr. Genuis for the motion. We are in agreement with the sentiment of the motion. It does build on something.... I'm looking at Mr. Bergeron as well, because it is very similar to a motion that we worked on a year and a half ago. He presented it in the House, attempting to get unanimous consent. It didn't have unanimous consent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151519\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think that, for some of the depth that was in the motion Mr. Bergeron put to the House, it may be helpful to add it to this motion. In that one, it called for \u201cdialogue between representatives of the Tibetan people, His Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives, the Central Tibetan Administration and the government of the People's Republic of China with a view to enabling Tibet to exercise genuine autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution.\u201d</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151520\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think it was a fuller statement, and it involved a number of parties. Mr. Virani was also helpful in shaping that motion. If we could move towards that motion, I think it would be a better understanding, because a lot of people just won't know what the \u201cmiddle way\u201d is or what something is... I think that motion we worked on was maybe at the Canada-China committee, not the foreign affairs committee, if I'm correct.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151521\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was going to do this later. I thought this would come up later in the meeting, so I haven't had time to write that out as an amendment, but you're kind of getting the point. I printed off the unanimous consent motion that Mr. Bergeron presented last year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151522\" data-originallang=\"en\">My other concern is that, because I believe we will all be in agreement with it, I would hope that we could take the motion and issue a press release or a media release on this as a statement from our committee that we would do it. I suggest that instead of presenting it to the House because I want to move this quickly, I want to get it done, and I don't want to waste time in the House later if it comes back for concurrence and those kinds of things. I would like to give this out as a statement that we all agree on and present unanimity on it, especially after the testimony we've heard today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151523\" data-originallang=\"en\">I could read out that motion, if it's helpful. I have a copy of it as well, if that's helpful for the clerk. It's sort of amending it to read this, which I could read again if people wanted to hear it.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7151517\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151518\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie M. Genuis de sa motion. Nous sommes d\u2019accord avec l\u2019esprit de la motion. Elle s\u2019appuie sur quelque chose... Je regarde aussi M. Bergeron, parce que c\u2019est tr\u00e8s semblable \u00e0 une motion sur laquelle nous avons travaill\u00e9, il y a un an et demi. Il l\u2019avait pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e \u00e0 la Chambre dans l'espoir d\u2019obtenir le consentement unanime. Il n\u2019y a pas eu consentement unanime.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151519\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je pense que, compte tenu de la profondeur de la motion que M. Bergeron a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e \u00e0 la Chambre, il pourrait \u00eatre utile de l\u2019ajouter \u00e0 cette motion. La motion en question appelait \u00e0 un \u00ab dialogue entre des repr\u00e9sentants du peuple tib\u00e9tain Sa Saintet\u00e9 le dala\u00ef-lama ou ses repr\u00e9sentants, l\u2019Administration centrale tib\u00e9taine et le gouvernement de la R\u00e9publique populaire de Chine en vue de permettre au Tibet l\u2019exercice d\u2019une autonomie v\u00e9ritable dans le cadre de la constitution chinoise. \u00bb</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151520\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense qu\u2019il s\u2019agissait d\u2019une d\u00e9claration plus compl\u00e8te, et que plusieurs partis y ont particip\u00e9. M. Virani a \u00e9galement contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la fa\u00e7onner. Si nous pouvions reprendre cette motion, je pense que la situation serait mieux comprise, parce que beaucoup de gens ne savent tout simplement pas ce qu\u2019est la \u00ab Voie du milieu \u00bb ou ce qu'est... Je pense que c'est peut-\u00eatre au Comit\u00e9 Canada-Chine, plut\u00f4t qu'au Comit\u00e9 des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res que nous avons travaill\u00e9 sur cette motion, si je ne m\u2019abuse.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151521\" data-originallang=\"en\">J\u2019allais faire cela plus tard. Je pensais que cette question serait soulev\u00e9e plus tard au cours de la r\u00e9union, et je n\u2019ai donc pas eu le temps de r\u00e9diger un amendement, mais vous comprenez o\u00f9 je veux en venir. J\u2019ai imprim\u00e9 la motion de consentement unanime que M. Bergeron a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e l\u2019an dernier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151522\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'autre part, comme je crois que nous serons tous d\u2019accord, j\u2019esp\u00e8re que nous pourrons adopter la motion, et publier un communiqu\u00e9 \u00e0 ce sujet en tant que d\u00e9claration de notre comit\u00e9. Je propose de faire cela au lieu de pr\u00e9senter la motion \u00e0 la Chambre, car je veux agir rapidement; je veux que ce soit fait et je ne veux pas perdre du temps plus tard \u00e0 la Chambre si la motion revient pour \u00eatre adopt\u00e9e et ce genre de choses. J\u2019aimerais pr\u00e9senter cela comme une d\u00e9claration sur laquelle nous sommes tous d\u2019accord et sur laquelle nous sommes unanimes, surtout apr\u00e8s les t\u00e9moignages que nous avons entendus aujourd\u2019hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7151523\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pourrais lire la motion, si cela peut vous \u00eatre utile. J\u2019en ai \u00e9galement une copie, si cela peut \u00eatre utile \u00e0 la greffi\u00e8re. Il s\u2019agit en quelque sorte de la modifier pour qu'elle se lise ainsi, et je pourrais la relire si quelqu'un le souhaite.</p>"
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