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{
    "time": "2009-11-25 16:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Brian Storseth",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1758437\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yes, just a couple of quick points, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1758438\" data-originallang=\"en\">One, in your defence, we did sit on a committee jointly where it was common practice for the chair to take this authority so we could expedite committee business in fairness to everybody.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1758439\" data-originallang=\"en\">Two, I would like to know if you could reference for the committee--perhaps not today--where you found your ruling on the time allocation, because we have had this question come up in another committee, where a clerk informed us that because the agenda shows 3:30 to 5:30 traditionally, the committee is deemed to be shut down at 5:30 unless otherwise requested by the committee, as these rooms are often booked afterwards for other reasons.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1758440\" data-originallang=\"en\">So could you clarify where you found that?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1758437\" data-originallang=\"en\">Oui, quelques br\u00e8ves remarques, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1758438\" data-originallang=\"en\">Premi\u00e8rement, pour votre d\u00e9fense, je mentionne que nous avons si\u00e9g\u00e9 ensemble \u00e0 un comit\u00e9 dont le pr\u00e9sident exer\u00e7ait couramment ce pouvoir dans le but d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le d\u00e9roulement des travaux, en \u00e9tant \u00e9quitable envers tout le monde. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1758439\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, j'aimerais savoir si vous pouviez fournir au comit\u00e9 \u2014 peut-\u00eatre une autre fois \u2014 la citation sur laquelle vous avez bas\u00e9 votre d\u00e9cision sur la r\u00e9partition du temps, parce que cette question a \u00e9t\u00e9 soulev\u00e9e dans un autre comit\u00e9, et le greffier de ce comit\u00e9 nous a dit qu'\u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que l'ordre du jour indiquait habituellement que la r\u00e9union se tenait de 15 h 30 \u00e0 17 h 30, la s\u00e9ance du comit\u00e9 \u00e9tait r\u00e9put\u00e9e termin\u00e9e \u00e0 17 h 30, \u00e0 moins que le comit\u00e9 n'en ait d\u00e9cid\u00e9 autrement, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que ces salles sont souvent r\u00e9serv\u00e9es \u00e0 d'autres utilisations. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1758440\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourriez-vous donc nous indiquer o\u00f9 vous avez trouv\u00e9 cette r\u00e8gle? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/justice/40-2/50/brian-storseth-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/brian-storseth/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/583/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2972857",
    "document_url": "/committees/justice/40-2/50/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fjustice%2F40-2%2F50%2F"
    }
}