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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2010-04-20 17:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Paul Szabo (Mississauga South, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1883176\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the member has raised a number of issues that we could talk about in terms of proportional representation or rep by pop.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883177\" data-originallang=\"en\">Diane Marleau, a former colleague of ours, had a bill that concerned northern Ontario. She was making the point that as the population of Canada concentrates and the proportion of northern communities goes down, their representation shrinks, or the riding size becomes so enormous to the point that constituents in those very large ridings would never see their member of Parliament because the member of Parliament could not possibly get around the community.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883178\" data-originallang=\"en\">Obviously, rep by pop in its pristine form is not possible, but maybe we should be looking at how to protect reasonable representation for northern communities, Labrador, P.E.I., and Newfoundland. Maybe then we could deal with the rest of the country in terms of rep by pop.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883179\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder what she thinks of that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1883176\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a soulev\u00e9 un certain nombre de questions relatives \u00e0 la repr\u00e9sentation proportionnelle, ou repr\u00e9sentation selon la population, dont nous pourrions parler.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883177\" data-originallang=\"en\">Diane Marleau, une ancienne coll\u00e8gue, avait pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un projet de loi touchant le Nord de l'Ontario. Elle faisait valoir que la population du Canada se concentre et qu'\u00e0 mesure que la proportion de la population dans les collectivit\u00e9s du Nord diminue, leur repr\u00e9sentation diminue \u00e9galement, ou bien les circonscriptions deviennent si grosses que leurs \u00e9lecteurs n'ont plus aucune chance de voir leur d\u00e9put\u00e9 parce que celui-ci ne peut tout simplement pas parcourir de si grandes distances.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883178\" data-originallang=\"en\">De toute \u00e9vidence, la repr\u00e9sentation selon la population au sens strict est impossible, mais nous devrions peut-\u00eatre envisager des fa\u00e7ons de maintenir une repr\u00e9sentation raisonnable dans les collectivit\u00e9s du Nord, au Labrador, \u00e0 l'\u00cele-du-Prince-\u00c9douard et \u00e0 Terre-Neuve. Peut-\u00eatre pourrions-nous ensuite nous occuper de la repr\u00e9sentation selon la population dans le reste du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883179\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais savoir ce qu'elle pense de tout cela.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/4/20/paul-szabo-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/paul-szabo/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3198/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3107129",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition motion\u2014Representation of Quebec in the House of Commons",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/4/20/",
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}