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{
"time": "2010-06-04 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Bonnie Crombie (Mississauga\u2014Streetsville, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2013539\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the mystery of the missing PMO communications director continues. Dimitri Soudas, the 30-year-old spokesman for the unaccountable Conservative <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a>, has been evading a House of Commons bailiff all week long in an elaborate cat-and-mouse game, all so he can avoid being accountable to Canadians by answering questions before the Commons ethics committee.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2013540\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Soudas has so flouted the law on parliamentary privilege that he has even barred the bailiff from the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a>'s office in Langevin Block. Clearly, Mr. Soudas needs to educate himself about the laws of this land. Parliament is the highest court in the country, and dodging a summons to appear before a parliamentary committee is in contempt of the law. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2013541\" data-originallang=\"en\">He also has no right to prevent a licensed bailiff from a parliamentary building, a bailiff who is only carrying out the duty he was assigned.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2013542\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Soudas's boss, the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a>, needs to instruct his employee to stop playing games, to stop thumbing his nose at the law, and to avail himself to the bailiff. He can run, but he cannot hide, and he can no longer be saved by the fire alarm. It is time--</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2013539\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le myst\u00e8re de la disparition du chef des communications du cabinet du premier ministre s'\u00e9paissit. Dimitri Soudas, 30 ans, porte-parole du <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> conservateur qui n'a de comptes \u00e0 rendre \u00e0 personne, joue au chat et \u00e0 la souris depuis une semaine avec un huissier de la Chambre des communes pour \u00e9viter de rendre des comptes aux Canadiens en r\u00e9pondant aux questions du Comit\u00e9 de l'\u00e9thique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2013540\" data-originallang=\"en\">M. Soudas m\u00e9prise tellement la loi sur le privil\u00e8ge parlementaire qu'il a m\u00eame emp\u00each\u00e9 l'huissier d'acc\u00e9der au bureau du <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a>, dans l'\u00e9difice Langevin. Manifestement, M. Soudas devrait se renseigner sur les lois canadiennes. Le Parlement est le plus haut tribunal du Canada et ne pas ob\u00e9ir \u00e0 un ordre de comparution devant un comit\u00e9 parlementaire constitue une infraction.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2013541\" data-originallang=\"en\">M. Soudas n'a pas le droit d'interdire \u00e0 un huissier officiel l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un \u00e9difice parlementaire. L'huissier ne fait que son devoir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2013542\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le patron de M. Soudas, le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a>, devrait dire \u00e0 son employ\u00e9 d'arr\u00eater ce petit jeu, d'arr\u00eater de se moquer de la loi et de se mettre \u00e0 la disposition de l'huissier. Il peut toujours courir, mais il ne pourra pas se cacher \u00e9ternellement et il ne sera plus sauv\u00e9 par l'alarme d'incendie. Il est temps...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/6/4/bonnie-crombie-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bonnie-crombie/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3207711",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/6/4/",
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}