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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2008-02-08 11:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"891062\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, there are at least two things wrong with the $120,000 untendered contract that the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> handed over to his buddy from Queen's Park.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891063\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The first and most obvious problem is that it is a gross violation of Treasury Board guidelines to give such a contract away without a fair tendering process.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891064\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, what kind of <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">finance minister</a>, what kind of guardian of the public purse, would squander $120,000 on a single speech? That is two years' salary for the average family of four. It is an obscene, offensive, cavalier waste of money. It is a wildly irresponsible abuse of the taxpayers' money and an abuse of the public trust.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891065\" data-originallang=\"en\">When a Liberal defence minister gave an untendered contract of one-third the size to a former girlfriend, he was dropped from the cabinet and banished to the Senate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891066\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Those guys over there are now gorging themselves on the public purse and running roughshod over all the rules and regulations that we put in place to protect us from the Liberals. The government loses all credibility. If the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> is not hauled up on the carpet and disciplined sternly--</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"891062\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y au moins deux choses \u00e0 reprocher au <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> relativement au march\u00e9 de 120 000 $ qu'il a attribu\u00e9 sans appel d'offres \u00e0 son copain de Queen's Park.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891063\" data-originallang=\"en\">Premi\u00e8rement, il est \u00e9vident que l'attribution d'un tel march\u00e9 sans processus d'appel d'offres \u00e9quitable contrevient aux lignes directrices du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor en mati\u00e8re d'attribution de march\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891064\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, pour qui se prend le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a>, le gardien du Tr\u00e9sor, pour ainsi engouffrer 120 000 $ dans la r\u00e9daction d'un seul discours? C'est ce que gagne une famille moyenne de quatre personnes en deux ans. C'est un gaspillage \u00e9hont\u00e9 et insultant des fonds publics. C'est une utilisation abusive irresponsable de l'argent des contribuables et un abus de confiance du public canadien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891065\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour avoir attribu\u00e9 sans appel d'offres \u00e0 une ancienne amie de coeur un march\u00e9 trois fois moins important, un ministre de la D\u00e9fense lib\u00e9ral a \u00e9t\u00e9 renvoy\u00e9 du Cabinet et banni du S\u00e9nat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"891066\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces types d'en face raflent les fonds publics et bafouent les r\u00e8gles et r\u00e8glements que nous avons pris pour nous prot\u00e9ger des lib\u00e9raux. Le gouvernement perd toute cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9. Si on n'exige pas de comptes de la part du <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> et si on ne lui inflige pas de s\u00e9v\u00e8res sanctions disciplinaires...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/2/8/pat-martin-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2309557",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Contracts",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/2/8/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2008%2F2%2F8%2F"
}
}