Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2009-02-09 17:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. John Cannis",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1273909\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will be very brief. The <a data-HoCid=\"128634\" href=\"/politicians/jim-abbott/\" title=\"Jim Abbott\">Prime Minister</a> rode the wave on credibility and fairness. The amendment that the Liberal team has put forward is to hold the government to account three times a year. We want to see if indeed that money is being well spent, and he is right. The Conservatives have left unspent $88 million for disaster relief and crime prevention. That is a shame when all this money was allocated. The problem is applications, stumbling blocks, nitty-gritty, timeframes, et cetera. When an area has a need, when we need to hire more police officers, there should be no obstacle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273910\" data-originallang=\"en\">I believe that the Conservatives should implement certain proposals in terms of taking certain bugs out of the system so that there are no foul-ups like other programs in the past or that indeed the money goes where it is supposed to go and is spent where it is supposed to be when they allocate these moneys. The frustration that people feel, and I used the program for the Canadian Film Festival earlier on that my colleague brought up as an example, is what is we are talking about. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273911\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we have allocated the money for, let us say, a recreation facility, or if we have allocated the money to hire more police officers, for example, or if we have allocated the money for a disaster area, get that money there. People cannot wait. We do not want another Katrina issue, where money was announced by Mr. Bush and a year and a half, two years later, people were still hurting.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273912\" data-originallang=\"en\">We want action now. The nation needs action now. The world needs action now.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1273909\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je serai tr\u00e8s bref, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident. Le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> s'est laiss\u00e9 porter par la vague de la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 et de l'\u00e9quit\u00e9. Selon l'amendement propos\u00e9 par les lib\u00e9raux, le gouvernement devra rendre des comptes trois fois l'an. Nous voulons voir si l'argent est effectivement bien d\u00e9pens\u00e9 et le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a raison. Parmi l'argent allou\u00e9 par les conservateurs aux secours en cas de catastrophe et \u00e0 la pr\u00e9vention de la criminalit\u00e9, une somme de 88 millions de dollars n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9pens\u00e9e. C'est honteux, car cette somme avait \u00e9t\u00e9 allou\u00e9e. Le probl\u00e8me r\u00e9side dans la mise en oeuvre, les obstacles, les d\u00e9tails, les d\u00e9lais, etc. Il ne devrait pas y avoir d'obstacles lorsqu'il existe un besoin dans une r\u00e9gion, lorsqu'il faut embaucher davantage de policiers. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273910\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je crois que les conservateurs devraient mettre en oeuvre certaines propositions pour \u00e9liminer diverses lacunes du syst\u00e8me, afin qu'il n'y ait plus de cafouillage comme ce fut le cas pour certains programmes et que l'argent parvienne vraiment \u00e0 destination. Il est ici question de l'irritation que vivent les gens. Pour illustrer cette irritation, j'ai utilis\u00e9 comme exemple le programme li\u00e9 au Festival du film canadien, dont il a \u00e9t\u00e9 question plus t\u00f4t.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273911\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si des sommes ont, par exemple, \u00e9t\u00e9 allou\u00e9es \u00e0 des installations r\u00e9cr\u00e9atives, \u00e0 l'embauche de nouveaux policiers ou \u00e0 une zone sinistr\u00e9e, elles doivent \u00eatre d\u00e9pens\u00e9es. Les gens ne peuvent attendre. Nous ne voulons pas d'une autre situation comme celle de l'ouragan Katrina, o\u00f9 M. Bush a annonc\u00e9 l'octroi de sommes qui n'avaient toujours pas \u00e9t\u00e9 vers\u00e9es deux ans plus tard. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273912\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous voulons des gestes concrets maintenant. Le pays a besoin de tels gestes. Le monde en a besoin.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/2/9/john-cannis-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/john-cannis/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3222/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2591071",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2009",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/2/9/",
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