Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-11-15 11:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Lynne Yelich (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"769109\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to suggest, if the member is so confused about why we are doing it, that this is the time to do it before an election so that the people at the polls have to use some discretionary measures to give a ballot. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769110\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I believe it was the chief electoral officer who insisted that this be done and it is about the integrity of democracy and of the vote. Therefore, I do not understand why the member would not want to see this go through and be settled.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769111\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Liberals are making this into a cultural or religious issue but it has nothing to do with that. It is asking for visual identification to get a ballot. That is all it is. It was not an issue until the Liberals made it an issue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769112\" data-originallang=\"en\"> However, I am trying to think of all the things that come up on an election night. Perhaps, as the member from the Bloc tried to stress, these kinds of things become an issue on election night when these people do not have a great deal of time to seek out some sort of guidance on this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769113\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the member is trying to make a religious issue out of this, then perhaps he should go back to the people who he is saying are affected. They have already said to the committee that they are not affected by this legislation and that they would be glad to take off their veils. They are not unhappy about it. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769114\" data-originallang=\"en\">All parties at the procedure and House affairs committee agreed to have this legislation for the integrity of the voting system. Therefore, why not just pass the bill. It does not sound like it will hurt anyone or cause any problems throughout the Muslim communities. This has nothing to do with just religion or culture. It has more to do with showing ID at the polls.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"769109\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne comprend pas pourquoi nous faisons cela, je lui dirai que c'est parce qu'il est temps d'agir avant des \u00e9lections afin que les pr\u00e9pos\u00e9s aux bureaux de scrutin puissent disposer de pouvoirs discr\u00e9tionnaires au moment de remettre les bulletins de vote.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769110\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je crois que c'est le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des \u00e9lections qui a insist\u00e9 pour que cela soit fait. Il s'agit d'assurer l'int\u00e9grit\u00e9 de la d\u00e9mocratie et du vote. Je ne comprends donc pas pourquoi le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne veut pas que la mesure soit adopt\u00e9e et le probl\u00e8me r\u00e9gl\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769111\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les lib\u00e9raux en font une question culturelle ou religieuse, mais ce n'est pas du tout le cas. Il s'agit de demander l'identification visuelle des \u00e9lecteurs avant de leur remettre un bulletin de vote. C'est tout. Il n'y avait aucune controverse avant que les lib\u00e9raux en cr\u00e9ent une.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769112\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, j'essaie de penser \u00e0 toutes les choses qui surviennent un soir d'\u00e9lection. Peut-\u00eatre, comme a tent\u00e9 de l'expliquer le d\u00e9put\u00e9 bloquiste, ces choses deviennent des probl\u00e8mes le soir des \u00e9lections lorsque les gens n'ont pas beaucoup de temps pour demander conseil. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 veut en faire une question religieuse, il devrait peut-\u00eatre s'adresser aux personnes qu'il dit \u00eatre touch\u00e9es par la mesure. Elles ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9clar\u00e9 devant le comit\u00e9 qu'elles n'\u00e9taient pas touch\u00e9es par le projet de loi et qu'elles seraient heureuses d'enlever leur voile. Elles ne sont pas insatisfaites de la mesure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"769114\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tous les partis au Comit\u00e9 de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre ont convenu que le projet de loi assurait l'int\u00e9grit\u00e9 du vote. Par cons\u00e9quent, pourquoi ne pas simplement adopter le projet de loi? Il ne semble pas qu'il va blesser qui que ce soit ou causer des probl\u00e8mes dans les collectivit\u00e9s musulmanes. Cela n'a rien \u00e0 voir avec la religion ou la culture. Il s'agit plut\u00f4t d'\u00e9tablir l'identit\u00e9 des \u00e9lecteurs aux bureaux de scrutin.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/11/15/lynne-yelich-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/lynne-yelich/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1529/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2196830",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Elections Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/11/15/",
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}