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{
"time": "2010-12-14 11:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. David Christopherson (Hamilton Centre, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2277792\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277793\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you all for your attendance today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277794\" data-originallang=\"en\">What most of us and the public at large are having trouble understanding is how we got to this point without something triggering an action. To quote from the AG report, the starting point of this was:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2277795\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada (PSIC) was created in April 2007 to provide a means for federal public servants and members of the public to disclose potential wrongdoing in the federal public sector. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2277796\" data-originallang=\"en\">The upshot of all of this is that within that office there were people who wanted to whistle-blow and who ended up being victims of the very types of actions that the office was created to give employees protection from. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277797\" data-originallang=\"en\">Therefore, the obvious question is, how did we get to this point without something triggering a review, a red flag, something to say to someone, including politicians, somewhere within this whole system, what should have happened, what should have happened and didn't happen, and what is an area that we need to create? I know the Auditor General talked about a meeting of officers of Parliament in the new year, and I'd like to hear about that. Specifically, how did we get to this point without any flags being raised at all until we were in crisis?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277798\" data-originallang=\"en\"> You're on the time, sir.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2277792\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277793\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci \u00e0 tous d'\u00eatre ici aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277794\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce que les gens, et la plupart d'entre nous, n'arrivons pas \u00e0 comprendre, c'est comment nous en sommes arriv\u00e9s l\u00e0 et pourquoi nous n'avons pas \u00e9t\u00e9 alert\u00e9s plus t\u00f4t. Selon le rapport de la v\u00e9rificatrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, le point de d\u00e9part \u00e9tait le suivant:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2277795\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le Commissariat \u00e0 l'int\u00e9grit\u00e9 du secteur public du Canada (le Commissariat) a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tabli en avril 2007 pour offrir aux fonctionnaires f\u00e9d\u00e9raux et aux membres du public un moyen de divulguer des actes r\u00e9pr\u00e9hensibles pr\u00e9sum\u00e9s dans le secteur public f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2277796\" data-originallang=\"en\">Or, au bout du compte, au sein m\u00eame du commissariat, des employ\u00e9s ont voulu d\u00e9noncer des actes r\u00e9pr\u00e9hensibles mais se sont retrouv\u00e9s victimes pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment des mesures contre lesquelles le bureau devait les prot\u00e9ger.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277797\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par cons\u00e9quent, la question qui s'impose, c'est comment en sommes-nous arriv\u00e9s l\u00e0 sans qu'il n'y ait eu d'alerte ou d'incident d\u00e9clenchant un examen? Comment se fait-il que personne n'ait dit, notamment un politicien, ce qu'il manquait dans le syst\u00e8me, ce qu'il faudrait lui ajouter? Je sais que la v\u00e9rificatrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale a parl\u00e9 d'une rencontre des mandataires du Parlement dans la prochaine ann\u00e9e, et j'aimerais en savoir davantage. Et surtout, comment se fait-il que personne n'ait sonn\u00e9 l'alarme avant qu'on se retrouve dans cette crise?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2277798\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le temps file, monsieur.</p>"
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