Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2009-12-08 11:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michel Guimond (Montmorency\u2014Charlevoix\u2014Haute-C\u00f4te-Nord, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1789607\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Yes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789608\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Chair, perhaps my Liberal colleagues were not told by their whip, but at the whip meeting, I asked about whether a chair who leaves the committee chair is replaced by another Conservative member. To reflect the government's minority status, however, the Conservative member who takes the chair will not be replaced. That has happened in other committees, namely, the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789609\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In this case, Mr. Chair, I think you are making the right decision, because your name, apparently\u2014and that is why I deliberately use the word \u201capparently\u201d, the investigation will prove it\u2014you are being extremely wise by taking your retirement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789610\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As far as I am concerned, I have no problem supporting Mr. Lauzon as chair, but we need to make sure we comply with the agreement reached with the Conservative Party whip, which states that Mr. Lauzon will not be replaced.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789611\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In terms of the numbers, you realize this means that if my colleague, Marcel Proulx, first vice-chair, or myself, second vice-chair, take the chair, the Conservatives would have the majority in the committee, which would not reflect the reality in the House.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1789607\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Oui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789608\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, mes coll\u00e8gues du Parti lib\u00e9ral n'en ont peut-\u00eatre pas \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9s par leur whip, mais j'ai soulev\u00e9 la question \u00e0 la r\u00e9union des whips \u00e0 savoir que lorsqu'un pr\u00e9sident quitte le fauteuil de la pr\u00e9sidence du comit\u00e9, il sera remplac\u00e9 par un autre d\u00e9put\u00e9 conservateur. Par contre, pour refl\u00e9ter le caract\u00e8re du gouvernement minoritaire, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 conservateur qui occupera le si\u00e8ge ne sera pas remplac\u00e9. Cela s'est produit dans d'autres comit\u00e9s, notamment au Comit\u00e9 de l'agriculture et de l'agroalimentaire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789609\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans le cas pr\u00e9sent, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, je pense que vous prenez la bonne d\u00e9cision, parce que votre nom, apparemment \u2014 et c'est pourquoi j'emploie volontairement le terme \u00ab apparemment \u00bb; l'enqu\u00eate le d\u00e9montrera \u2014, vous faites preuve d'une prudence de sage en demandant votre retrait. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789610\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En ce qui me concerne, je n'ai pas de probl\u00e8me \u00e0 appuyer la pr\u00e9sidence de M. Lauzon, mais il faut s'assurer que l'entente conclue avec le whip du Parti conservateur stipulant que M. Lauzon ne sera pas remplac\u00e9 soit respect\u00e9e. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1789611\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Vous comprenez qu'avec le jeu des nombres, cela \u00e9quivaudrait \u00e0 faire en sorte qu'advenant que mon coll\u00e8gue Marcel Proulx, premier vice-pr\u00e9sident, ou moi-m\u00eame, deuxi\u00e8me vice-pr\u00e9sident, occupions le fauteuil, les conservateurs deviendraient majoritaires au comit\u00e9, ce qui ne refl\u00e8terait pas la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de la Chambre.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/michel-guimond-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/michel-guimond/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/436/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3005510",
    "document_url": "/committees/house-affairs/40-2/30/",
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