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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2008-02-26 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Omar Alghabra (Mississauga\u2014Erindale, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"932654\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in his closing remarks, my hon. colleague talked about our responsibility as parliamentarians toward our soldiers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"932655\" data-originallang=\"en\"> There is no doubt that when Parliament discusses a military deployment this is a very serious decision that parliamentarians need to discuss and engage in. There is also no doubt that there are various points of view and passionate opinions about this issue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"932656\" data-originallang=\"en\"> However, I would like to hear the member's comments on the fact that there are accusations from some members of this House that any kind of debate is aid or comfort to the enemy and that it is not helping the actual objectives of the mission. I found it extremely shocking that while parliamentarians have a responsibility, not only to our soldiers but to Canadians and to the rest of the world, to debate this matter extensively and exhaustively, some members make accusations that any kind of motivation behind this debate is aiding and comforting our enemy, when I think the purpose is exactly the opposite.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"932654\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, dans sa conclusion, mon coll\u00e8gue a parl\u00e9 de notre responsabilit\u00e9 en tant que parlementaires envers nos soldats.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"932655\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il ne fait aucun doute qu'un d\u00e9ploiement militaire constitue un sujet tr\u00e8s grave que les parlementaires doivent d\u00e9battre. Il ne fait \u00e9galement aucun doute que cette question suscite des opinions vari\u00e9es et soul\u00e8ve les passions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"932656\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais toutefois conna\u00eetre l'opinion du d\u00e9put\u00e9 au sujet des accusations de la part de certains d\u00e9put\u00e9s voulant que tout type de d\u00e9bat ne fait qu'aider l'ennemi et nuit aux objectifs r\u00e9els de la mission. Les parlementaires ont la responsabilit\u00e9, non seulement envers nos soldats mais aussi envers les Canadiens et le reste du monde, de d\u00e9battre en long et en large de cette question. Je trouve extr\u00eamement choquant que certains d\u00e9put\u00e9s affirment que ce d\u00e9bat ne peut servir qu'\u00e0 aider ou r\u00e9conforter l'ennemi. Selon moi, c'est exactement le contraire.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/2/26/omar-alghabra-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/omar-alghabra/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/312/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2333857",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Afghanistan",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/2/26/",
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}
}