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{
"time": "2007-10-19 11:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Garth Turner (Halton, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"752829\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, millions of Canadians may have had their privacy breached and their trust misused by members of this House. This is due to CIMS, a database run by the Conservative Party, which each party MP has installed in his or her office.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"752830\" data-originallang=\"en\">Unknown to millions of constituents, personal information is routinely fed into this database, which experts are calling a \u201cchilling\u201d breach of ethics. Will the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> do the ethical thing and release the names of Canadians in this database, giving voters the opportunity, if they wish, to opt out?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"752829\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il se peut que la vie priv\u00e9e de millions de Canadiens ait \u00e9t\u00e9 viol\u00e9e et que des d\u00e9put\u00e9s aient abus\u00e9 de leur confiance. Tout cela \u00e0 cause du CIMS, une base de donn\u00e9es maintenue par les conservateurs et \u00e0 laquelle chaque d\u00e9put\u00e9 conservateur a acc\u00e8s \u00e0 partir de son bureau.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"752830\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'insu d'un millions d'\u00e9lecteurs, des renseignements personnels sont r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement vers\u00e9s dans cette base de donn\u00e9es, pratique que les experts qualifient d'effroyable manquement \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique. Le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> agira-t-il conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique et divulguera-t-il le nom des Canadiens qui se trouvent dans cette base de donn\u00e9es afin qu'ils puissent, s'ils le souhaitent, demander de ne pas y figurer?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/10/19/garth-turner-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/457/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/906/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2176600",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Privacy",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/10/19/",
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}
}