Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-05-31 17:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ken Epp (Edmonton\u2014Sherwood Park, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"665908\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank, immensely, the interpreters who are working in those little booths back there without whom I would not be able to communicate with those people. I am unfortunately a unilingual English speaking Canadian and they appear to be unilingual French speaking, since they usually do not speak the other languages.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665909\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to correct the Bloc members. Several of the members have indicated that they are the greatest thing going, that all the Bloc supporters come out in droves and vote for them and so on. I, being a little inclined mathematically, went to the website of Elections Canada and looked at the numbers. I will not bore the House with the details, but these are the percentages. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665910\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the province of Quebec the Liberals got 21% of the vote, the Conservatives got 25% of the vote and the Bloc got 42% of the vote. It looks to me as if their premise is right. Their supporters do show up and vote for them, and for that they are to be commended.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665911\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, I want to have them compare that with my wonderful province of Alberta. I will go in increasing numbers. The Bloc got 0% of the vote, the Liberals got 15.3% of the vote and the Conservatives in my province got 65% of the vote.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665912\" data-originallang=\"en\">Therefore, enough of that saying it is members of Parliament who serve their constituents who get their voters out. Clearly, in Alberta we do as Conservative members.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"665908\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie vivement les interpr\u00e8tes qui travaillent dans ces petites cabines derri\u00e8re et sans lesquels je ne serais pas en mesure de communiquer avec ces gens. Je suis malheureusement un Canadien anglophone unilingue et ils semblent \u00eatre unilingues francophones puisqu'ils n'utilisent g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement pas l'autre langue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665909\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 corriger les propos des bloquistes. Plusieurs d'entre eux ont indiqu\u00e9 qu'ils constituent la meilleure formation et, entre autres, que tous leurs partisans se pr\u00e9cipitent aux urnes pour voter en masse en leur faveur. Comme j'ai un certain int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les chiffres, je suis all\u00e9 sur le site web d'\u00c9lections Canada et j'ai jet\u00e9 un coup d'oeil aux donn\u00e9es qui y sont publi\u00e9es. Je n'ennuierai pas la Chambre avec des d\u00e9tails, mais voici quelques pourcentages. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665910\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au Qu\u00e9bec, les lib\u00e9raux ont remport\u00e9 21 p. 100 de la faveur populaire, les conservateurs, 25 p. 100 et les bloquistes, 42 p. 100. Il semble que leur hypoth\u00e8se soit juste. Les partisans du Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois se sont manifest\u00e9s et ils ont vot\u00e9; je f\u00e9licite mes coll\u00e8gues. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665911\" data-originallang=\"en\">Toutefois, j'aimerais qu'ils comparent ces chiffres avec ceux qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9s pour ma magnifique province, l'Alberta. Je pr\u00e9sente les chiffres en ordre croissant. Les bloquistes ont remport\u00e9 0 p. 100 de la faveur populaire, les lib\u00e9raux, 15,3 p. 100 et les conservateurs, 65 p. 100.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"665912\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par cons\u00e9quent, j'en ai assez d'entendre dire que ce sont eux les d\u00e9put\u00e9s qui servent bien les \u00e9lecteurs et qui am\u00e8nent ces derniers aux urnes. De toute \u00e9vidence, en Alberta, c'est ce que font les d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/5/31/ken-epp-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/99/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1249/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2118324",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Elections Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/5/31/",
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