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{
    "time": "2006-04-11 14:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. John Baird (President of the Treasury Board, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"29811\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, restoring integrity to government is certainly a big job after the experience of the last 13 years of the party opposite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"29812\" data-originallang=\"en\">The federal accountability act is indeed a big document and a comprehensive document. It is the first honest, meaningful step to begin to re-earn the public trust, the public trust that was so shattered from what we learned at the Gomery inquiry. We heard stories of kickbacks, of corruption and of envelopes with thousands of dollars in cash trading hands.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"29813\" data-originallang=\"en\">The reason the act is so big is that it requires--</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"29811\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c\u2019est une lourde t\u00e2che de r\u00e9tablir l\u2019int\u00e9grit\u00e9 au gouvernement apr\u00e8s les 13 ann\u00e9es que le parti d\u2019en face vient de passer au pouvoir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"29812\" data-originallang=\"en\"> La Loi f\u00e9d\u00e9rale sur l\u2019imputabilit\u00e9 est un document volumineux et complet. C\u2019est la premi\u00e8re mesure honn\u00eate et s\u00e9rieuse visant \u00e0 regagner la confiance du public, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 tellement \u00e9branl\u00e9e par les r\u00e9v\u00e9lations de l\u2019enqu\u00eate Gomery. Nous avons entendu parler de ristournes, de corruption, d\u2019enveloppes contenant des milliers de dollars pass\u00e9es de la main \u00e0 la main.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"29813\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Si le projet de loi est si long, c\u2019est qu\u2019il faut...</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2006/4/11/john-baird-8/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/john-baird/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/326/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "1502118",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Federal Accountability Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2006/4/11/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2006%2F4%2F11%2F"
    }
}