Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-06-07 15:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Geoff Regan (Halifax West, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"688972\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to thank and congratulate my hon. colleague from Cumberland\u2014Colchester\u2014Musquodoboit Valley for his comments today and for taking part in this debate. I also thank him for his decision this week to vote against the budget, which was a very courageous move. Nova Scotians are very proud of the actions he has taken. I just wish the other Conservative members from Nova Scotia would show the same kind of intestinal fortitude.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"688973\" data-originallang=\"en\">I know the member has been carrying around for weeks a copy of the offshore accord and he referred to it at some length in his recent comments. I know he is aware that it talks about the fact that it is to apply to the equalization formula as it exists at the time. It seems to me, as I have heard comments from Conservative members today, that there has been a failure to comprehend that, a failure to comprehend what the accord is actually all about and what it means. The fact that no matter how equalization might change in the future, the accord and its provisions and the payments under it were to apply so that there would not be a clawback of offshore resource royalties from Nova Scotia or Newfoundland and Labrador.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"688974\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think there has been a failure to understand that on the other side but it is time they did. It is time that they lived up to this signed agreement. The member is absolutely right when he says that when the Government of Canada signs a contract it should live up to it. I signed that contract on behalf of the Government of Canada, as he has pointed out to me a few times, and it is time for the government to live up to it.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"688972\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie et je f\u00e9licite mon coll\u00e8gue de Cumberland\u2014Colchester\u2014Musquodoboit Valley de son intervention d'aujourd'hui dans le d\u00e9bat. De plus, je lui suis reconnaissant d'avoir pris, cette semaine, la d\u00e9cision tr\u00e8s courageuse de voter contre le budget. Les N\u00e9o-\u00c9cossais sont tr\u00e8s fiers de ce qu'il a fait. J'aimerais simplement que les autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse fassent preuve d'autant de courage. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"688973\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je sais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 se prom\u00e8ne depuis des semaines avec un exemplaire de l'accord sur les ressources extrac\u00f4ti\u00e8res et qu'il en a passablement parl\u00e9 lors de ses r\u00e9centes interventions. Il sait que cet accord devait s'appliquer \u00e0 la formule de p\u00e9r\u00e9quation telle qu'elle existait \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque. Il me semble, d'apr\u00e8s les observations qu'ont faites aujourd'hui les d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs que le gouvernement n'a pas compris cela, qu'il n'a pas compris en quoi consiste l'accord et ce qu'il signifie. Peu importe les modifications qui seront apport\u00e9es \u00e0 la formule de p\u00e9r\u00e9quation dans l'avenir, l'accord, notamment ses dispositions et les paiements qui y sont pr\u00e9vus, devait s'appliquer de fa\u00e7on \u00e0 ce qu'il n'y ait pas de r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration des redevances sur les ressources extrac\u00f4ti\u00e8res de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse ou de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"688974\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je crois que le gouvernement n'a pas compris cela, mais il serait temps qu'il le fasse. Il serait temps qu'il respecte cet accord qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 conclu. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parfaitement raison de dire que, lorsque le gouvernement du Canada signe un contrat, il doit le respecter. J'ai sign\u00e9 ce contrat au nom du gouvernement du Canada, comme il l'a indiqu\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, et il est temps que le gouvernement honore les engagements qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pris. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/6/7/geoff-regan-8/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/geoff-regan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1640/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2137120",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/6/7/",
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