Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2006-10-27 12:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"227114\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I felt that I had to challenge the veracity of some of the comments made by my colleague.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227115\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the introduction to my colleague's speech, he would have members believe that the reason he and his party were thrown out of office, still picking the feathers off their butt from being tarred and feathered and run out on a rail, was because the NDP kicked them out. For the record, it was actually the people of Canada who kicked them out. The reason they are now isolated in their shame and the reason they are sitting way over there isolated is because the people of Canada were well aware that they broke faith with the Canadian people. They lost their confidence and therefore they lost their jobs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227116\" data-originallang=\"en\">My colleague is living in some kind of state of denial if he thinks it was the NDP that kicked them out of office. In actual fact, the NDP members are doing their job as opposition MPs and criticizing the budget we are debating today, the budget implementation act. We oppose the bill and the budget and we are speaking against it in a constructive way.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227117\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would my colleague not agree that if there were any opposition party on which we should be casting any blame, it would be the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois because five minutes after the budget was tabled in the House of Commons, the leader of the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois walked out of these chambers, stepped in front of a TV camera and said that he liked it and that he would vote for it? At that very moment all negotiations ended because in a minority Parliament the opposition parties could effect some fairly constructive positive changes if one of them did not bail out on the rest of us. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227118\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would he not agree that if there is any choleric to be vented at this stage of the implementation of the budget, it should be directed toward the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and its rampant self-interest?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"227114\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je me sens oblig\u00e9 de contester le bien-fond\u00e9 de certaines affirmations du d\u00e9put\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227115\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans son pr\u00e9ambule, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a tent\u00e9 de faire croire que, si lui et son parti ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9ject\u00e9s du pouvoir et ne s'en sont pas encore remis, c'est parce que le NPD a appuy\u00e9 sur le bouton du si\u00e8ge \u00e9jectable. Je dirai que c'est plut\u00f4t la population du Canada qui a appuy\u00e9 sur le bouton. S'ils doivent maintenant boire leur honte et s'ils se retrouvent isol\u00e9s, c'est parce que la population du Canada savait tr\u00e8s bien qu'ils avaient trahi sa confiance. Ils ont perdu la confiance des Canadiens et, par cons\u00e9quent, ils ont perdu le pouvoir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227116\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 vit en \u00e9tat de d\u00e9ni de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 s'il pense que c'est le NPD qui a chass\u00e9 les lib\u00e9raux du pouvoir. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates ne font que leur travail de d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l'opposition et critiquent le budget dont nous discutons aujourd'hui. Nous nous opposons au projet de loi d'ex\u00e9cution du budget et nous le d\u00e9non\u00e7ons en termes constructifs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227117\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne serait-il pas pr\u00eat \u00e0 admettre que, s'il y a un parti d'opposition qui m\u00e9rite un bl\u00e2me, c'est le Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois parce que, cinq minutes apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9p\u00f4t du budget \u00e0 la Chambre, le chef de ce parti s'est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 devant une cam\u00e9ra de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision pour dire qu'il aimait ce budget et qu'il l'appuierait? D\u00e8s lors, toutes les n\u00e9gociations ont pris fin parce que, lorsque le gouvernement est minoritaire, les partis d'opposition peuvent obtenir des changements tr\u00e8s constructifs si aucun des partis ne laisse tomber les autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"227118\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne reconna\u00eet-il pas que, s'il faut exprimer de la col\u00e8re \u00e0 cette \u00e9tape-ci du processus d'ex\u00e9cution du budget, cette col\u00e8re devrait \u00eatre dirig\u00e9e contre le Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, qui ne sert que ses propres int\u00e9r\u00eats? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2006/10/27/pat-martin-7/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "1731725",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2006, No. 2",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2006/10/27/",
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