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{
"time": "2010-05-04 16:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pat Martin",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1925074\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think, Mr. Speaker, there is a cooling off period for public office holders before they should be able to enter into lobbying. I think that is the recommendation. As we extend the duty and the obligation of parliamentary secretaries to fall under the Lobbyist Registration Act, I believe the same bar, prohibition and cooling off period should apply. By extension, that is probably the intent of the motion put forward by the Liberals today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1925075\" data-originallang=\"en\"> If a member is going to fall under the rubric of the Lobbyist Registration Act, the member should be subject to the same cooling off rules. A member cannot simply leave his or her office as a member of Parliament one day and then the next day open up shop as a lobbyist trying to trade off the contacts and the privileged access a member may have developed through the years as a parliamentarian. Again, this is based on the same principle that the public does not want members to use the time they spent in public office for their personal and private gain unless the information being used is accessible to the public at large.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1925074\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je pense que les titulaires d\u2019une charge publique doivent attendre un certain temps avant de pouvoir devenir lobbyistes. Je crois que c'est la recommandation qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite. Si nous \u00e9tendons la Loi sur l'enregistrement des lobbyistes aux secr\u00e9taires parlementaires, je crois qu'on devrait leur imposer la m\u00eame obligation, la m\u00eame interdiction, la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode d'attente. C'est probablement l'intention de la motion qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les lib\u00e9raux aujourd'hui </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1925075\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si un d\u00e9put\u00e9 doit se conformer \u00e0 la Loi sur l'enregistrement des lobbyistes, il devrait \u00eatre oblig\u00e9 de respecter la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode d'attente. Un d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne peut pas quitter ses fonctions, puis devenir lobbyiste du jour au lendemain et tenter de tirer parti des relations qu'il a pu nouer et de l'acc\u00e8s privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 qu'il a pu obtenir au cours de ses ann\u00e9es au Parlement. Comme je l'ai dit, le public ne veut pas que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s se servent du temps qu'ils ont pass\u00e9 comme titulaires d\u2019une charge publique \u00e0 des fins personnelles, sauf si les renseignements utilis\u00e9s sont accessibles au public.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/5/4/pat-martin-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3140488",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition motion\u2014Lobbying Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/5/4/",
"related": {
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}
}