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{
    "time": "2021-05-27 15:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Adam Vaughan (Spadina\u2014Fort York, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Adam Vaughan (Spadina\u2014Fort York, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6771814\" data-originallang=\"en\">Can I propose that we draft a letter to send to the House affairs committee to ask for a change in the Standing Orders and the rules and procedures to allow us to honour indigenous elders in this way? It's an established practice and not one of cost, really. It's just a question of how we pay for it and execute it. We could take the lead and suggest that all committees be given permission to honour indigenous elders as they appear as witnesses, especially when we connect studies into indigenous affairs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6771815\" data-originallang=\"en\">Secondly, I'll take it upon the government side to facilitate the presentation of the gifts that honour their presence. If we could get the addresses of the elders that are being invited, my office will take care of it as a gesture of goodwill towards establishing a new and good practice.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6771814\" data-originallang=\"en\">Puis-je proposer que nous r\u00e9digions une lettre \u00e0 envoyer au Comit\u00e9 de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre pour demander une modification du R\u00e8glement et des r\u00e8gles et proc\u00e9dures afin de nous permettre d'honorer les a\u00een\u00e9s autochtones de cette fa\u00e7on? Il s'agit d'une pratique \u00e9tablie et non d'un co\u00fbt, vraiment. Il s'agit simplement de savoir comment nous allons en assumer le co\u00fbt et l'ex\u00e9cuter. Nous pourrions prendre l'initiative et sugg\u00e9rer que tous les comit\u00e9s soient autoris\u00e9s \u00e0 honorer les a\u00een\u00e9s autochtones lorsqu'ils comparaissent comme t\u00e9moins, surtout lorsque nos \u00e9tudes portent sur les affaires autochtones.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6771815\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ensuite, je demanderais au gouvernement de faciliter la remise des cadeaux qui honorent leur pr\u00e9sence. Si nous pouvions obtenir les adresses des a\u00een\u00e9s qui sont invit\u00e9s, mon bureau s'en chargerait. Ce serait un geste de bonne volont\u00e9 pour favoriser l'\u00e9tablissement d'une nouvelle pratique, d'une pratique de bon aloi.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/human-resources/43-2/36/adam-vaughan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/adam-vaughan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4283/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11340828",
    "document_url": "/committees/human-resources/43-2/36/",
    "related": {
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    }
}