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This is a single
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": "2009-12-10 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Rob Nicholson (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1773908\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has not been listening to the arguments and has not been looking at the advice that has been provided. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1773909\" data-originallang=\"en\">I can tell you, Mr. Speaker, that one of the experts we have quoted and are relying upon is Professor Joseph Maingot, who, in discussing parliamentary privilege, says: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1773910\" data-originallang=\"en\"> By convention, a parliamentary committee will respect Crown privilege when invoked, at least in relation to matters of national and public security. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1773911\" data-originallang=\"en\">What is so difficult about that to understand for the hon. member?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1773908\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 n'a pas \u00e9cout\u00e9 les arguments et n'a pas \u00e9cout\u00e9 les avis qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1773909\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je peux vous assurer, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, que l'un des experts que nous avons cit\u00e9s et sur lequel nous nous appuyons est le professeur Joseph Maingot, qui a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 ceci au sujet du privil\u00e8ge parlementaire:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1773910\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Par convention, les comit\u00e9s parlementaires respectent le privil\u00e8ge de la Couronne lorsqu'il est invoqu\u00e9, au moins lorsqu'il s'agit de questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale et de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1773911\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu'est-ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 n'arrive pas \u00e0 comprendre l\u00e0-dedans?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/12/10/rob-nicholson-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/rob-nicholson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1396/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3014620",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Afghanistan",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/12/10/",
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}
}