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{
"time": "2006-05-19 13:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Mauril B\u00e9langer (Ottawa\u2014Vanier, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"14601\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, first, it shows that the Minister of Transport does, indeed, need glasses, as he was sitting next to the Prime Minister at the time and he could not recognize that it was a cabinet document.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"14602\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nonetheless, I gather you had taken this matter under advisement, Mr. Speaker, and you told me earlier today that it was still there. I will wait for your ruling on this matter. As always, there is an inherent trust in your judgment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"14603\" data-originallang=\"en\">Should your judgment, Mr. Speaker, be in accord with what the House leader has just said, then I hope this would be a lesson for the Prime Minister. To recite and to read from a document which he is then not prepared to table for whatever reason, if it may be judged valid, leaves the House somewhat in a perplexing situation. If the Prime Minister is quoting comments in response to questions from the House and we cannot have access to those documents, then there is a bit of a quandary there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"14604\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am sure Mr. Speaker will find a way around that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"14601\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'abord, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il est clair que le ministre des Transports a besoin de lunettes, car il \u00e9tait assis \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 du premier ministre et il ne s'est m\u00eame pas rendu compte qu'il s'agissait d'un document du Cabinet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"14602\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quoi qu'il en soit, je crois comprendre que vous avez pris l'affaire en d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, et vous m'avez dit plus t\u00f4t aujourd'hui que c'\u00e9tait toujours le cas. Je vais attendre que vous rendiez votre d\u00e9cision. Comme toujours, on se fie \u00e0 votre jugement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"14603\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si vous jugiez, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, que le leader parlementaire avait raison, j'esp\u00e8re que cela servira de le\u00e7on au premier ministre. Le fait de donner lecture d'un document qu'il refuse ensuite de d\u00e9poser \u00e0 la Chambre, pour une raison ou pour une autre, pour peu que cela soit admissible, plonge la Chambre dans une certaine perplexit\u00e9. Si le premier ministre lit des citations en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 des questions qui lui sont pos\u00e9es \u00e0 la Chambre et qu'on ne peut avoir acc\u00e8s aux documents en question, on se trouve alors devant un dilemme. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"14604\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis certain que le Pr\u00e9sident saura trouver une solution.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/5/19/mauril-belanger-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mauril-belanger/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3687/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1547000",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Points of Order",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/5/19/",
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}
}