Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-04-23 17:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Geoff Regan",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"557349\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your attentiveness. I will certainly take your advice, as always.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557350\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me just say that the decision by my hon. colleague for <a data-HoCid=\"78823\" href=\"/politicians/gerald-keddy/\" title=\"Gerald Keddy\">South Shore\u2014St. Margaret's</a> was a deliberate decision. It was disappointing and it was deceitful.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557351\" data-originallang=\"en\">Here is what the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78829\" href=\"/politicians/58/\" title=\"Bill Casey\">Cumberland\u2014Colchester\u2014Musquodoboit Valley</a> said in 2004.</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"557352\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I call on the government to... just get down to the point and say, \u201cWe made a promise. Now we are going to keep it\u201d. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"557353\" data-originallang=\"en\">Now he has changed his mind. He decided to say that the important thing was Nova Scotia could choose. I have already explained what this choice is about. It is not the deal we made. This choosing nonsense is not the deal that he and his colleagues insisted that our province deserved. That was disappointing, deceitful and deliberate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557354\" data-originallang=\"en\">In March of last year, the new finance minister, although after 15 months we can hardly call him new, said that equalization had been made a mess because of these deals with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Conservative members of Parliament from those two provinces made the decision, the deliberate decision to say nothing then. This is plain disappointing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557355\" data-originallang=\"en\">What is the part time ACOA minister saying today? The poor member for <a data-HoCid=\"78900\" href=\"/politicians/peter-mackay/\" title=\"Peter MacKay\">Central Nova</a> is so despondent about this betrayal that there are unsubstantiated reports that he spent the weekend after the budget planting potatoes, but he got over it because when Nova Scotians said it was a betrayal\u2014</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"557349\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vous remercie de votre attention. Comme toujours, je me conformerai \u00e0 votre avis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557350\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me contenterai de dire que la d\u00e9cision du d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78823\" href=\"/politicians/gerald-keddy/\" title=\"Gerald Keddy\">South Shore\u2014St. Margaret's</a> \u00e9tait d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e. Elle \u00e9tait d\u00e9cevante et tr\u00e8s trompeuse.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557351\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici ce qu'a dit le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78829\" href=\"/politicians/58/\" title=\"Bill Casey\">Cumberland\u2014Colchester\u2014Musquodoboit Valley</a> en 2004.</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"557352\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J'exhorte le gouvernement \u00e0 [...] dire carr\u00e9ment qu'il a fait une promesse et qu'il entend la tenir. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"557353\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il a maintenant chang\u00e9 d'id\u00e9e. Il a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de dire que l'important, c'est que la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse pouvait choisir. J'ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 expliqu\u00e9 en quoi consistait ce choix. Ce n'est pas l'accord que nous avons conclu. Ce non-sens relatif \u00e0 un choix n'est pas l'accord que m\u00e9ritait notre province, selon ce que disaient ses coll\u00e8gues et lui-m\u00eame. Cela \u00e9tait d\u00e9cevant, trompeur et d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557354\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au mois de mars 2006, le nouveau ministre des Finances, bien que 15 mois plus tard on ne puisse gu\u00e8re le qualifier de nouveau, a dit que la p\u00e9r\u00e9quation avait \u00e9t\u00e9 g\u00e2ch\u00e9e en raison de ces ententes avec la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse et Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs de ces deux provinces ont pris la d\u00e9cision d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e de ne rien dire \u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0. Cela est tout simplement d\u00e9cevant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"557355\" data-originallang=\"en\">Que dit aujourd'hui le ministre de l'APECA \u00e0 temps partiel? Le pauvre d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78900\" href=\"/politicians/peter-mackay/\" title=\"Peter MacKay\">Nova-Centre</a> \u00e9tait tellement d\u00e9prim\u00e9 \u00e0 cause de cette trahison que, selon des affirmations non confirm\u00e9es, il aurait pass\u00e9 le week-end apr\u00e8s le budget \u00e0 planter des pommes de terre, mais il s'en est remis parce que lorsque les N\u00e9o-\u00c9cossais ont dit que c'\u00e9tait une trahison...</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/4/23/geoff-regan-3/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2022918",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2007",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/4/23/",
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