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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2007-05-18 12:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Mauril B\u00e9langer (Ottawa\u2014Vanier, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"636586\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"78726\" href=\"/politicians/22/\" title=\"Don Bell\">North Vancouver</a> got up to ask a question, I could not help but hear many colleagues opposite refer to his absence from the House. Even the <a data-HoCid=\"78752\" href=\"/politicians/peter-mackay/\" title=\"Peter MacKay\">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a> in his answer in a rather unorthodox manner referred to it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"636587\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would hope that all colleagues, and I am saying this for the benefit of Canadians who may be watching us from the gallery or on television, that all colleagues would take good advantage of next week when the House is in recess to cool their tempers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"636588\" data-originallang=\"en\">If someone is absent from this House for medical reasons, I would hope that members from all parties would avoid making reference to that in a denigrating manner, as I have heard today.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"636586\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, lorsque mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"78726\" href=\"/politicians/22/\" title=\"Don Bell\">North Vancouver</a> s'est lev\u00e9 pour poser une question, j'ai entendu plusieurs coll\u00e8gues d'en face parler de son absence de la Chambre. Dans sa fa\u00e7on peu orthodoxe de r\u00e9pondre, le <a data-HoCid=\"78752\" href=\"/politicians/peter-mackay/\" title=\"Peter MacKay\">ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res</a> lui-m\u00eame a fait allusion \u00e0 cette absence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"636587\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'esp\u00e8re que tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s, et je tiens \u00e0 le dire pour les Canadiens qui sont \u00e0 la tribune ou qui regardent les d\u00e9bats \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision, j'esp\u00e8re que tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s, donc, profiteront de la semaine de rel\u00e2che parlementaire pour se ressaisir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"636588\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je m'attends \u00e0 ce que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de tous les partis s'abstiennent de d\u00e9nigrer un d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui s'absente pour des raisons m\u00e9dicales, comme certains l'ont fait aujourd'hui.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/18/mauril-belanger-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mauril-belanger/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3687/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2099067",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Points of Order",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/5/18/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2007%2F5%2F18%2F"
}
}