Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2006-04-27 11:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bill Siksay",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"33756\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely fair to criticize the government for what I see is a failure to address an important accountability issue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33757\" data-originallang=\"en\">The other important accountability issue that the member for Burlington might want to consider is the fact that, yes, it was not part of the Conservative platform but neither did it win a majority in the House of Commons. The Conservatives need to struggle with what Canadians want to see done in the House. They also need to take account of all of the ideas raised in the last election. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33758\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is very important that the Conservative Party look to all corners of the House to find the best ideas that are most representative of the hopes and concerns of Canadians and bring those forward to this Parliament. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33759\" data-originallang=\"en\">We saw a very arrogant Liberal Party struggling with the whole question of how to govern in a minority position in the previous Parliament. I hope the Conservatives have learned something from watching the terrible struggles the Liberals had with that. One of the ways a government struggles with a minority government is to look for ideas to broaden its base of support and be more representative of the actual outcome of the previous election.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33760\" data-originallang=\"en\">To say that it was not part of the Conservative platform and therefore we are not moving on it, is very wrong-headed and borders on the kind of arrogance that we might have heard from the Liberals often in the last Parliament. I would hope that the Conservatives do not follow that kind of approach and would be willing to take a different tack in this Parliament.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"33756\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il convient tout \u00e0 fait de critiquer le gouvernement parce qu'il a omis, \u00e0 mon sens, une question importante en mati\u00e8re de responsabilit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33757\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'autre question importante li\u00e9e \u00e0 la responsabilit\u00e9 que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Burlington voudra peut-\u00eatre examiner est le fait que, oui, cela ne faisait pas partie du programme des conservateurs, mais les conservateurs n'ont pas, non plus, remport\u00e9 une majorit\u00e9. Les conservateurs doivent saisir ce que les Canadiens veulent que la Chambre fasse. Ils doivent aussi tenir compte de toutes les id\u00e9es soulev\u00e9es pendant la derni\u00e8re campagne \u00e9lectorale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33758\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est tr\u00e8s important que le Parti conservateur consulte tous les partis pour trouver les id\u00e9es traduisant le mieux les espoirs et les pr\u00e9occupations des Canadiens et qu'il soumette ces id\u00e9es au Parlement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33759\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lors de la derni\u00e8re l\u00e9gislature, nous avons vu le Parti lib\u00e9ral faire preuve de beaucoup d'arrogance alors qu'il \u00e9tait contraint de composer avec un gouvernement minoritaire. J'esp\u00e8re que les conservateurs ont tir\u00e9 des le\u00e7ons des probl\u00e8mes que cette attitude a caus\u00e9s aux lib\u00e9raux. Un des d\u00e9fis d'un gouvernement minoritaire consiste \u00e0 chercher des id\u00e9es pour \u00e9largir ses appuis et repr\u00e9senter plus fid\u00e8lement les r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"33760\" data-originallang=\"en\">Affirmer que rien ne sera fait puisque la question ne faisait pas partie du programme conservateur est insens\u00e9 et cela s'apparente au genre d'arrogance que les lib\u00e9raux nous ont souvent servie lors de la derni\u00e8re l\u00e9gislature. J'ose esp\u00e9rer que les conservateurs n'adopteront pas ce genre d'attitude et qu'ils sont dispos\u00e9s \u00e0 prendre une autre voie au cours de la pr\u00e9sente l\u00e9gislature.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2006/4/27/bill-siksay-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bill-siksay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1264/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "1508582",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Federal Accountability Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2006/4/27/",
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}