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{
"time": "2007-11-15 16:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. David Christopherson (Hamilton Centre, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"769901\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I was particularly struck by the member's focus on his province, and his own constituents, particularly those who have been disenfranchised.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769902\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member will know that the NDP voted against the original Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2413948\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act\">C-31</a> because of the very issue of disenfranchisement. Our concerns are that those issues still remain unresolved. There still will be literally thousands, if not tens of thousands, of homeless individuals who will have no means of being able to vote.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769903\" data-originallang=\"en\">Despite the hon. member's concern for his constituents, he suggested that this bill would kind of make everything okay. From the NDP perspective, it still leaves unresolved all the key issues, in particular the matter of a statutory declaration, which we believe would go a long way to resolving that issue. The bill before us now will not address that and it will still to leave a number of my constituents and a number of his disenfranchised. They will be unable to participate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769904\" data-originallang=\"en\">Perhaps he could help close that gap for me in terms of understanding the Bloc members original support for Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2413948\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act\">C-31</a>, their support of this bill and his personal concern raised here today about those who will be disenfranchised. The disenfranchisement will still continue even after Bill <a data-HoCid=\"3091718\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-18/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (verification of residence)\">C-18</a> is passed, which in effect amends Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2413948\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act\">C-31</a>. Would the member be good enough to help me understand and close the gap between the two trains of thought?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"769901\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 frapp\u00e9, au cours de l'intervention du d\u00e9put\u00e9, par l'accent qu'il a mis sur sa province et ses propres \u00e9lecteurs, en particulier sur ceux qui se retrouvent exclus.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769902\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 sait que le NPD a vot\u00e9 contre le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2413948\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act\">C-31</a>, \u00e0 l'origine, justement \u00e0 cause du probl\u00e8me de l'exclusion. Nous craignons que ce probl\u00e8me demeure largement non r\u00e9solu. Il y aura encore litt\u00e9ralement des milliers, voire des dizaines de milliers de sans-abri qui ne pourront aucunement voter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769903\" data-originallang=\"en\">M\u00eame si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 s'inqui\u00e8te pour ses \u00e9lecteurs, il pense que le projet de loi arrangerait les choses. Or, du point de vue du NPD, il laisse encore sans r\u00e9ponse tous les probl\u00e8mes principaux. Il exclut notamment l'id\u00e9e de la d\u00e9claration solennelle, qui, selon nous, serait une solution tr\u00e8s utile. Le projet de loi qui nous est soumis laisse toujours \u00e0 l'\u00e9cart un certain nombre d'\u00e9lecteurs de ma circonscription et de la sienne. Ils ne pourront toujours pas participer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769904\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 m'aide \u00e0 comprendre pourquoi les d\u00e9put\u00e9s du Bloc ont appuy\u00e9 le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2413948\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act\">C-31</a> et pourquoi ils appuient le pr\u00e9sent projet de loi, malgr\u00e9 les craintes exprim\u00e9es personnellement par le d\u00e9put\u00e9. L'exclusion va se poursuivre quand m\u00eame apr\u00e8s l'adoption du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"3091718\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-18/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (verification of residence)\">C-18</a>, qui aura pour effet de modifier le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2413948\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act\">C-31</a>. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pourrait-il m'aider \u00e0 comprendre et \u00e0 r\u00e9soudre cette contradiction?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/11/15/david-christopherson-1/",
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"source_id": "2199588",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Elections Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/11/15/",
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