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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2008-03-05 15:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Speaker",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"945497\" data-originallang=\"en\">Order. I have two reminders for hon. members and I want to quote from page 522 of Marleau and Montpetit, which I am sure is very familiar to all hon. members. First, it states:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945498\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The Speaker will not allow a Member to refer to another Member by name even if the Member is quoting from a document such as a newspaper article. As the Chair noted, a Member \u201ccannot do indirectly what cannot be done directly\u201d. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945499\" data-originallang=\"en\">That was a sin committed earlier today. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"945500\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, it states:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945501\" data-originallang=\"en\"> It is unacceptable to allude to the presence or absence of a Member or Minister in the Chamber. The Speaker has traditionally discouraged Members from signalling the absence of another Member from the House because \u201cthere are many places that Members have to be in order to carry out all of the obligations that go with their office\u201d. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945502\" data-originallang=\"en\">I hope hon. members will bear those statements in mind during the ensuing days and not repeat the mistakes that have been made today.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"945497\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'ordre, s'il vous pla\u00eet. J'ai deux rappels \u00e0 faire aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s. Permettez-moi d'abord de citer la page 522 de l'ouvrage de Marleau et Montpetit, que je suis persuad\u00e9 que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s connaissant fort bien. Premi\u00e8rement, on peut y lire ceci: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945498\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le Pr\u00e9sident ne saurait autoriser un d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 en appeler un autre par son nom m\u00eame lorsqu'il cite un document comme un article de journal. Comme la pr\u00e9sidence l\u2019a fait observer, \u00ab on ne peut pas faire indirectement ce qu\u2019on ne peut pas faire directement \u00bb. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945499\" data-originallang=\"en\">Or, cet \u00e9cart a \u00e9t\u00e9 commis plus t\u00f4t aujourd'hui. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"945500\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, il y est \u00e9galement dit ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945501\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Il est inacceptable de faire allusion \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sence ou \u00e0 l\u00b4absence d\u00b4un d\u00e9put\u00e9 ou d\u00b4un ministre \u00e0 la Chambre. Le Pr\u00e9sident a traditionnellement d\u00e9courag\u00e9 les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de faire remarquer l\u00b4absence d\u00b4un autre d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 la Chambre parce que \u00ab les d\u00e9put\u00e9s doivent \u00eatre \u00e0 bien des endroits, afin de bien remplir les devoirs de leur charge \u00bb. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"945502\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ose esp\u00e9rer que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s garderont ces observations en m\u00e9moire au cours des prochains jours et qu'ils ne r\u00e9p\u00e9teront pas les erreurs commises aujourd'hui. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/3/5/the-speaker-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/peter-milliken/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3187/",
"procedural": true,
"source_id": "2354253",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment Insurance",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/3/5/",
"related": {
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}
}