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{
    "time": "2010-04-27 12:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Marc Lemay",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1902394\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, my colleague is absolutely right. My response would be different if those before us had responded differently. I will draw a parallel quickly. When we wanted to abolish section 67 of the Indian Act on the possibility of going before the Human Rights Commission, this did not apply to Indians living on reserve. The government introduced a bill with one clause. By the time the committee was through with it, the bill had a dozen or so clauses and that is precisely what the first nations wanted.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1902395\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Today, the first nations are telling us exactly the same thing about discrimination. They are saying that this is a can of worms, and that we must resolve this issue once and for all. They do not want to come before Parliament every 10 or 15 years for a new amendment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1902396\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I can understand the government sitting down and saying that it will only do what the British Columbia Court of Appeal has asked it to do. But the first nations are wondering what the government is here for. It is here for the first nations. They are asking us to put an end to this discrimination once and for all. That is what we want to do.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1902394\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, mon coll\u00e8gue a parfaitement raison. Ma r\u00e9ponse serait tout autre si ceux qui sont devant nous avaient r\u00e9pondu diff\u00e9remment. Je vais faire un parall\u00e8le rapide. Lorsqu'on a voulu abolir l'article 67 de la Loi sur les Indiens concernant la possibilit\u00e9 d'aller devant la Commission des droits de la personne, cela ne s'appliquait pas aux Indiens vivant en r\u00e9serve. Le gouvernement a d\u00e9pos\u00e9 un projet de loi d'un article. Quant le projet de loi est sorti du comit\u00e9, il comportait une douzaine d'articles, et c'\u00e9tait exactement ce que voulaient les Premi\u00e8res nations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1902395\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Aujourd'hui, les Premi\u00e8res nations nous disent exactement la m\u00eame chose sur la discrimination. Elles nous disent qu'on a ouvert un panier de crabes, ou de homards vu que c'est la saison, et qu'on doit r\u00e9gler la question une fois pour toutes. Elles ne veulent pas revenir tous les 10 ou 15 ans devant le Parlement pour une nouvelle modification. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1902396\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je peux comprendre que le gouvernement s'assoie et dise que la Cour d'appel de la Colombie-Britannique lui a demand\u00e9 telle chose et qu'il ne fait que cela. Mais les Premi\u00e8res nations se demandent pourquoi le gouvernement est l\u00e0. Il est ici pour les Premi\u00e8res nations. Elles nous disent d'\u00e9liminer cette discrimination une fois pour toutes. C'est ce que nous voulons faire. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/4/27/marc-lemay-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marc-lemay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1453/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3121456",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Bill C-3--Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/4/27/",
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}