{"time": "2010-12-15 16:50:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Tom Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, CPC)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "

Mr. Speaker, I would like the opportunity to make a brief intervention having heard from several of my colleagues across the floor.

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Let me point out once again that the question before us is one of purported privilege. I would suggest quite strongly that there is nothing of the sort occurring. What we are hearing about is a member, quite frankly, whose feelings were hurt because members from the government side pointed out the fact that on a number of occasions he factually left Cancun and the latest environment summit. That seemed to hurt his feelings and he is raising a question of privilege to try to make comments that the government is somehow infringing upon his abilities to do his duty.

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I would point out, particularly in response to the last intervention on the opposition side, that attacks from opposition members on government ministers happen regularly, not infrequently but regularly. When the member opposite says these are not personal in nature, I would point out one of many examples that happened recently.

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For the record, when the member for Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u2014Lachine called the Minister of National Defence a \u201cslime\u201d in her questions, she was forced to apologize by the Speaker and in her apology she used the term \u201cslime\u201d on several other occasions. This is a matter of decorum, not a matter of privilege.

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Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ayant entendu plusieurs de mes coll\u00e8gues d'en face, j'aimerais faire une br\u00e8ve intervention.

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Je fais de nouveau remarquer que nous sommes saisis d'une pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e, et non \u2014 \u00e0 mon avis \u2014 d'une vraie question de privil\u00e8ge. Je soutiens fermement qu'il n'y a pas mati\u00e8re \u00e0 invoquer le privil\u00e8ge. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 s'est senti offens\u00e9 parce que des minist\u00e9riels ont soulign\u00e9 le fait que, \u00e0 maintes reprises, il a quitt\u00e9 Cancun, en l'occurrence le dernier sommet sur l'environnement. Maintenant il soul\u00e8ve une question de privil\u00e8ge, affirmant en quelque sorte que le gouvernement porte atteinte \u00e0 sa capacit\u00e9 de s'acquitter de ses fonctions.

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Je souligne, surtout en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 la derni\u00e8re intervention d'en face, que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l'opposition attaquent r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement les minist\u00e9riels, pas de temps en temps, mais bien fr\u00e9quemment. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face d\u00e9clare que les attaques des lib\u00e9raux ne sont pas de nature personnelle, alors permettez-moi de parler d'un des nombreux exemples r\u00e9cents.

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Je tiens \u00e0 ce que tout le monde sache que, dans des questions, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u2014Lachine a utilis\u00e9 un qualificatif extr\u00eamement insultant \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard du ministre de la D\u00e9fense nationale. Le Pr\u00e9sident l'a oblig\u00e9e \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter des excuses, mais, en s'ex\u00e9cutant, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs reprises le m\u00eame qualificatif insultant. Il s'agit l\u00e0 d'une question de d\u00e9corum, non d'une question de privil\u00e8ge.

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