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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2006-04-10 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"41113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, if it is true that freedom of information is the oxygen that democracy breathes, I think we are having another smog day here in Ottawa. Even though the Conservatives ran on open government, they seem to be running away from meaningful access to information reform. Access to information was supposed to be the cornerstone of their accountability act. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"41114\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to know from the President of the Treasury Board, who was it who got to him? Was it the PCO? Was it his own senior party people? Was it the crowns? Who was it who got him to change the principles on which he was elected about open government?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"41113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, s\u2019il est vrai que la libert\u00e9 d\u2019information est l\u2019oxyg\u00e8ne de la d\u00e9mocratie, je suis d\u2019avis qu\u2019Ottawa conna\u00eet aujourd\u2019hui une autre journ\u00e9e de smog. M\u00eame si les conservateurs ont fait campagne en promettant un gouvernement transparent, ils semblent vouloir fuir toute r\u00e9forme s\u00e9rieuse de l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019information. L\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019information \u00e9tait cens\u00e9 \u00eatre la pierre angulaire de leur loi sur la reddition de comptes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"41114\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le pr\u00e9sident du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor pourrait-il me dire qui l\u2019a amen\u00e9 \u00e0 se raviser? Le BPC? Les hauts responsables de son propre parti? Qui l\u2019a amen\u00e9 \u00e0 modifier les principes de transparence du gouvernement qu\u2019il a d\u00e9fendus pour se faire \u00e9lire?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/4/10/pat-martin-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1500999",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Accountability",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/4/10/",
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}
}