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{
    "time": "2005-10-17 12:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Raymond Simard (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Internal Trade, Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages and Associate Minister of National Defence, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Madam Speaker, I would like to indicate to the hon. member that I was going to rise on a point of order to bring him back to the topic at hand. However, as I know he is the opposition House leader and should know better, out of respect for him I did not do that.</p>\n<p>However we should come back to the bill at hand. It is very important that we focus on <a href=\"/bills/1011/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Income Tax Act\">Bill C-63</a>. I did not hear my colleague disagree with the minister in terms of the importance of interlinking, for instance, <a href=\"/bills/952/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act and the Oceans Act\">Bill C-3</a> and <a href=\"/bills/973/\" class=\"related_link legislation\" title=\"An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (fiscal equalization payments to the provinces and funding to the territories)\">Bill C-24</a>. We feel they are very closely related. I learned, however, that my hon. colleague watches too much TV and too many Monty Python movies.</p>\n<p>The mandatory review would be done by the procedure and House affairs committee. In fact, the opposition has a majority on that committee. It seems to me that we should be sending this mandatory review to committee and allow it to do its work. Maybe he could comment on that, please.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2005/10/17/raymond-simard-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/264/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3650/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Elections Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2005/10/17/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2005%2F10%2F17%2F"
    }
}