Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-12-09 16:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Brian Murphy (Moncton\u2014Riverview\u2014Dieppe, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2240014\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the member's comments were thoughtful. I am awfully glad we brought this motion forward today because it shows we are alone in the House, defending the charter. Bloc members cannot bring themselves to say that we need to defend the charter. The NDP justice critic said that the charter did not need defending. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240015\" data-originallang=\"en\">With all due respect to my friend, various speakers have said that they believed in the charter. It is almost damnation by faint praise because they have been drawn into the debate to affirm they believe in the charter. However, they squirrel it by saying that it is really just something that was built on existing constitutional mores and customs and it did not create new rights, which the hon. member suggested. He might want to think of talking to language rights warriors like Michel Bastarache and Michel Doucet, who very much appreciate having the charter that enforces language rights in schools in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, which did not exist before, despite provincial and federal official languages acts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240016\" data-originallang=\"en\">I appreciate the sincerity of my friend's comments, especially with respect to property. However, why did it take a Liberal motion to have Conservative members stand and say that they believed in the charter, that it was pretty good? There was a Bill of Rights and there was the common law. I want to hear him say loudly and proudly that he endorses the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that it should last in its current state forever.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2240014\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les observations du d\u00e9put\u00e9 sont m\u00fbrement r\u00e9fl\u00e9chies. Je suis tr\u00e8s heureux que nous ayons propos\u00e9 cette motion, car elle permet de constater que nous ne sommes pas les seuls \u00e0 la Chambre \u00e0 vouloir d\u00e9fendre la Charte. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s du Bloc n\u2019arrivent pas \u00e0 se r\u00e9signer \u00e0 admettre que nous devons la d\u00e9fendre. Le porte-parole du NPD en mati\u00e8re de justice a dit que la Charte n\u2019avait pas besoin d\u2019\u00eatre d\u00e9fendue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240015\" data-originallang=\"en\">Sauf le respect de mon coll\u00e8gue, divers d\u00e9put\u00e9s ont affirm\u00e9 croire en la Charte, mais avec une telle ti\u00e9deur que cela \u00e9quivaut presque \u00e0 une condamnation. Ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 contraints de participer au d\u00e9bat et d\u2019affirmer qu\u2019ils croient en la Charte. Mais ils font des mani\u00e8res et disent que, au fond, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9labor\u00e9e \u00e0 partir d\u2019usages et de coutumes constitutionnelles et n\u2019a pas cr\u00e9\u00e9 de nouveaux droits, comme le d\u00e9put\u00e9 l\u2019a laiss\u00e9 entendre. Il ferait peut-\u00eatre bien d\u2019en discuter avec des militants des droits linguistiques comme Michel Bastarache et Michel Doucet, qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s heureux de s\u2019appuyer sur une Charte qui fait respecter les droits linguistiques dans les \u00e9coles \u00e0 l\u2019\u00cele-du-Prince-\u00c9douard, en Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse et au Nouveau-Brunswick. Ces droits n\u2019existaient pas jusque-l\u00e0, malgr\u00e9 les lois provinciales et f\u00e9d\u00e9rale sur les langues officielles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240016\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je sais gr\u00e9 \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue de la sinc\u00e9rit\u00e9 de ses observations, notamment au sujet de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9. Toutefois, pourquoi a-t-il fallu une motion des lib\u00e9raux pour que des d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs affirment croire en la Charte et disent qu\u2019elle est plut\u00f4t bonne? Il y a eu auparavant la D\u00e9claration des droits et la common law. Je voudrais entendre le d\u00e9put\u00e9 dire tout haut et avec fiert\u00e9 qu\u2019il appuie la Charte des droits et libert\u00e9s et qu\u2019elle devrait durer dans sa forme actuelle pour toujours.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/12/9/brian-murphy-12/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/brian-murphy/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/519/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3659376",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Charter of Rights and Freedoms",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/12/9/",
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}