Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1995-11-28 11:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Dennis J. Mills (Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Industry, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Madam Speaker, I have always been an advocate that members of Parliament can play a meaningful role in amending or designing legislation in the House of Commons. Therefore, I do not share the view of the Bloc member for Trois-Rivi\u00e8res. It is important that we explain to Canadians how as individual MPs we can have an impact on the system.</p>\n<p>If I have a particular view of how the Small Business Loans Act should be amended, then I should sit down with colleagues on both sides of the House and develop a consensus. Quite often when we can get a consensus it has always been my experience that unless it is something that really upsets the fiscal framework of the country most ministers accept good ideas from their parliamentary committees.</p>\n<p>I have never experienced a situation in which a minister who had constantly ignored the advice of his political confreres on a constant basis whether in the House, in committee or in caucus still succeeded as a minister. I have never known ministers to succeed if genuine requests from MPs to their departments are ignored. If they are ignored it is the MPs' fault.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1995/11/28/dennis-mills-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/3553/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3156/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Small Business Loans Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1995/11/28/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1995%2F11%2F28%2F"
    }
}