Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-03-10 20:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Dennis Bevington (Western Arctic, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"959421\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to stand in Parliament and talk about our armed forces. All of us truly respect the role that they play. At the same time, we are parliamentarians and we have to come to grips with the nature of the mission and the nature of the direction that we can take.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959422\" data-originallang=\"en\">A Liberal member stood up a while ago and said that the New Democratic Party, in taking a position of withdrawal from Afghanistan, demonstrated its inability to govern our country. It demonstrated our lack of sensitivity to the understanding of these issues.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959423\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would go back to the experience of Spain a few years ago when the Spanish government came to power and withdrew its troops from Iraq. The Spanish government successfully disengaged from that conflict. That government carried on to solve some its own internal insurgency issues. It has worked very hard to settle the problems it has in its own country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959424\" data-originallang=\"en\"> There are other ways that we can approach the Afghanistan problem on an international basis. It does not take away the ability of a party to govern. That kind of a remark is simply inappropriate here. We are discussing a very difficult and serious situation that Canada has got itself into.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959425\" data-originallang=\"en\">The two larger parties in Parliament have decided that they can settle their differences over a three year extension of this mission. We do not think that is appropriate. We have a solid position.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959426\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question for my hon. colleague across the way is this. How does our party's position make us less informed, less able to conduct the business of the House, as one of his hon. members chose to point out?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"959421\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c\u2019est un honneur d\u2019intervenir au Parlement et de parler de nos forces arm\u00e9es. Nous \u00e9prouvons tous un respect sinc\u00e8re pour le r\u00f4le qu\u2019elles jouent. Toutefois, nous sommes des parlementaires, et nous devons nous interroger sur la nature de la mission, sur l\u2019orientation que nous pouvons prendre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959422\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Un d\u00e9put\u00e9 lib\u00e9ral a pris la parole tout \u00e0 l\u2019heure et il a dit que le Nouveau Parti d\u00e9mocratique a montr\u00e9, en optant pour notre retrait de l\u2019Afghanistan, qu\u2019il \u00e9tait incapable de gouverner le Canada, que ce choix trahissait un manque de sensibilit\u00e9 qui l\u2019emp\u00eachait de comprendre ces enjeux. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959423\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je voudrais rappeler l\u2019exp\u00e9rience de l\u2019Espagne, il y a quelques ann\u00e9es. Le gouvernement nouvellement \u00e9lu a retir\u00e9 ses troupes d\u2019Irak. Le gouvernement espagnol a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 se d\u00e9sengager de ce conflit. Le gouvernement a tent\u00e9 ensuite de r\u00e9gler ses propres probl\u00e8mes d\u2019insurrection \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur de ses fronti\u00e8res. Il a travaill\u00e9 tr\u00e8s fort afin de r\u00e9gler ces probl\u00e8mes qui existent chez lui. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959424\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a d\u2019autres moyens d\u2019aborder le probl\u00e8me afghan dans un contexte international. Cela ne prive pas un parti de la capacit\u00e9 de gouverner. Ce genre de propos est tout simplement d\u00e9plac\u00e9. Nous discutons de la situation tr\u00e8s difficile et grave dans laquelle le Canada s\u2019est pi\u00e9g\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959425\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Les deux plus importants partis au Parlement ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 qu\u2019ils pouvaient r\u00e9gler leurs divergences de vue et s\u2019entendre sur un prolongement de la mission sur trois ans. Nous ne croyons pas que ce soit acceptable. Notre position est solide. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"959426\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici la question que je veux poser \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue d'en face. Comment la position de notre parti nous rend-elle moins inform\u00e9s, moins capables d'ex\u00e9cuter les travaux de la Chambre, comme un de ses coll\u00e8gues a choisi de le signaler?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/3/10/dennis-bevington-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/dennis-bevington/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/339/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2365456",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Afghanistan",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/3/10/",
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