Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2015-02-16 15:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Fran\u00e7oise Boivin (Gatineau, NDP)",
        "fr": "Mme Fran\u00e7oise Boivin (Gatineau, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3980837\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Chair, this afternoon we will be hearing four extremely important witnesses. And yet the time they were given to present their report has already been reduced to five minutes. After we go and vote, we should at least take the time needed to question them. Otherwise, we could simply have asked them to submit their briefs, which they have already had the kindness to provide, and read them. In that way, they would not have had to go to the trouble of coming here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980838\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights has studied a large number of bills, but as I was saying earlier, and as I said to my colleague the parliamentary secretary, I have the impression that for the first time we don't have a reasonable and sufficient period of time at our disposal to do the work that is expected of us.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980839\" data-originallang=\"fr\">These people are available to answer our questions. My colleague\u2014I believe it was Mr. Wilks\u2014said two weeks ago that this was important. We were willing to reduce the length of their presentations so as to have some time for questions and answers with them. However, we do not even have that time. If they stayed, we could make some progress in our work. We could hear witnesses again on Wednesday.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980840\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Our priority with regard to this file is to do serious work.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3980837\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, nous entendrons cet apr\u00e8s-midi quatre t\u00e9moins extr\u00eamement importants. Or nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9duit \u00e0 cinq minutes le temps qui leur \u00e9tait allou\u00e9 pour pr\u00e9senter leur rapport. Apr\u00e8s \u00eatre all\u00e9s voter, nous devrions au moins prendre le temps de les questionner. Autrement, nous aurions pu simplement leur demander de nous soumette leurs m\u00e9moires, qu'ils ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu la gentillesse de nous fournir, et les lire. De cette fa\u00e7on, ils n'auraient pas eu \u00e0 se d\u00e9placer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980838\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le Comit\u00e9 permanent de la justice et des droits de la personne a \u00e9tudi\u00e9 une grande quantit\u00e9 de projets de loi, mais comme je vous le disais plus t\u00f4t, ainsi qu'\u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue secr\u00e9taire parlementaire, j'ai l'impression que, pour la premi\u00e8re fois, nous ne disposons pas d'un laps de temps raisonnable et suffisant pour faire le travail qui nous est demand\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980839\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ces gens sont disponibles pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 nos questions. Mon coll\u00e8gue \u2014 c'\u00e9tait M. Wilks, je crois \u2014 a dit il y a deux semaines que c'\u00e9tait important. Nous \u00e9tions pr\u00eats \u00e0 r\u00e9duire la dur\u00e9e de leurs discours de fa\u00e7on \u00e0 pouvoir \u00e9changer avec eux. Or nous ne disposons m\u00eame pas de ce temps-l\u00e0. S'ils restaient, nous pourrions faire avancer nos travaux. Nous pourrions encore entendre des t\u00e9moins mercredi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980840\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Notre priorit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de ce dossier, est de faire du travail s\u00e9rieux.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/justice/41-2/61/francoise-boivin-1/",
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    "document_url": "/committees/justice/41-2/61/",
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