Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-05-10 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ed Komarnicki (Souris\u2014Moose Mountain, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"609268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, scarcely a year ago, the Liberal Party was led by a man who vowed to end the tyranny of \u201cwho do you know in the PMO\u201d. In a way, that dream has come true for in the Liberal Party today it is no longer \u201cwho you know\u201d, but \u201cwho you owe\u201d. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609269\" data-originallang=\"en\">Candidates for the recent Liberal leadership are in hock to the tune of $2.6 million, almost all of it owed to titans such as Rod Bryden, Stephen Bronfman and John Rae. That is five times what the entire Liberal Party raised in the first three months of this year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609270\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, relief is on the way, not for the indebted Liberals, but rather for future candidates. Canada's new government has introduced legislation that will end the practice of using loans to evade, yes, evade, contribution limits.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609271\" data-originallang=\"en\">Never again will a party leader start his new job accompanied by a briefcase full of IOUs and his own personal collection agent. The accountability with respect to the loans bill will close this last loophole in our election financing laws, ushering in a modern era of clean politics.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"609268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y a \u00e0 peine un an, le Parti lib\u00e9ral \u00e9tait dirig\u00e9 par un homme qui s'\u00e9tait jur\u00e9 de mettre fin \u00e0 la tyrannie de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'avoir ses entr\u00e9es au cabinet du premier ministre. Son voeu a \u00e9t\u00e9 exauc\u00e9 en partie, car ce n'est plus qui l'on conna\u00eet, mais \u00e0 qui l'on doit de l'argent qui compte maintenant au Parti lib\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609269\" data-originallang=\"en\">En effet, les candidats \u00e0 la r\u00e9cente course \u00e0 la direction du Parti lib\u00e9ral ont contract\u00e9 des dettes de l'ordre de 2,6 millions de dollars presque enti\u00e8rement aupr\u00e8s de magnats tels que Rod Bryden, Stephen Bronfman et John Rae. Ces dettes correspondent \u00e0 cinq fois les montants recueillis par l'ensemble du Parti lib\u00e9ral au cours des trois premiers mois de l'ann\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609270\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'aide ne se fera pas trop attendre toutefois, pas pour les lib\u00e9raux endett\u00e9s, mais pour les futurs candidats, car le nouveau gouvernement du Canada a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un projet de loi qui mettra fin \u00e0 la pratique consistant \u00e0 avoir recours \u00e0 des pr\u00eats afin de contourner les dispositions relatives aux contributions maximales. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"609271\" data-originallang=\"en\">Jamais plus le chef d'un parti n'entrera en fonction muni d'une mallette remplie de reconnaissances de dette et accompagn\u00e9 de son agent personnel de recouvrement. Le projet de loi sur la responsabilit\u00e9 en mati\u00e8re de pr\u00eats va \u00e9liminer cette derni\u00e8re \u00e9chappatoire de nos lois r\u00e9gissant le financement \u00e9lectoral, inaugurant ainsi une \u00e8re nouvelle de politique propre.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/5/10/ed-komarnicki-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/ed-komarnicki/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1539/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2074973",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Elections Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/5/10/",
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}