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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2010-04-20 16:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Reid",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1883057\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, regarding the member's first point, he suggested that the Senate might have been intended originally to represent the governments of the various provinces. Not the Senate of Canada, the American senate, as originally set up, was appointed by the state legislatures and was intended to represent the state governments or the state legislatures. However, ours was never set up with that in mind.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883058\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vis-\u00e0-vis the appointment by the <a data-HoCid=\"128634\" href=\"/politicians/jim-abbott/\" title=\"Jim Abbott\">Prime Minister </a> of a substantial number of senators, I can only point out that this is as a result of the fact that the Liberals in the Senate, and in here as well, blocked every piece of Senate legislation we brought forward. We would at this point, were it not for Liberal blocking, have Senate elections in place. There was legislation brought forward within the first year this government was in place. Perhaps the member has forgotten that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1883057\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a laiss\u00e9 entendre, dans le premier point qu'il a soulev\u00e9, qu'on avait peut-\u00eatre pr\u00e9vu \u00e0 l'origine que le S\u00e9nat serve \u00e0 repr\u00e9senter les gouvernements provinciaux. Or, c'est plut\u00f4t les s\u00e9nateurs am\u00e9ricains qui \u00e9taient \u00e0 l'origine nomm\u00e9s par les assembl\u00e9es l\u00e9gislatives des \u00c9tats et qui repr\u00e9sentaient les gouvernements des \u00c9tats. Par contre, le S\u00e9nat du Canada n'a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9 dans ce but.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1883058\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 propos de la nomination, par le <a data-HoCid=\"128634\" href=\"/politicians/jim-abbott/\" title=\"Jim Abbott\">premier ministre</a>, d'un nombre important de s\u00e9nateurs, je peux simplement dire que cela r\u00e9sulte du fait que les lib\u00e9raux du S\u00e9nat et de la Chambre ont bloqu\u00e9 toutes les mesures l\u00e9gislatives du S\u00e9nat que nous avons pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es. Sans l'opposition des lib\u00e9raux, il y aurait aujourd'hui des \u00e9lections de s\u00e9nateurs. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a peut-\u00eatre oubli\u00e9 que le gouvernement a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 une mesure l\u00e9gislative en ce sens au cours de sa premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e au pouvoir.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/4/20/scott-reid-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-reid/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1382/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3106383",
"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/",
"related": {
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}
}