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{
"time": "2011-03-03 13:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jim Maloway (Elmwood\u2014Transcona, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2365788\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, we have heard very little from members of the Liberal Party today, other than their spokesperson, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"128311\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">St. Paul's</a>, who provided us with a bit of revisionist history this morning when she suggested that somehow the Conservatives had stacked the Senate with partisan appointments. On the other hand, however, the Liberals had members in the Senate but they were not partisan. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2365789\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to remind the member for <a data-HoCid=\"128311\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">St. Paul's</a> that it was in 1984, when the orgy of appointments were made by John Turner at the behest of former Prime Minister Trudeau, which led to a game-changing debate in that election, when Mulroney was able to attack Mr. Turner on the basis that he could have said no when he filled the Senate with Liberal hacks and fundraisers. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2365790\" data-originallang=\"en\">Basically, the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> is continuing that long established tradition by the Liberal Party over the last 100 years, and we want that to stop.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2365791\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the member have any further observations about the lack of Liberal interest in changing the Senate?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2365788\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, nous avons entendu bien peu de lib\u00e9raux s'exprimer aujourd'hui en dehors de leur porte-parole, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"128311\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">St. Paul's</a>, qui nous servi ce matin une version r\u00e9vis\u00e9e de l'histoire en laissant entendre que les conservateurs ont noyaut\u00e9 le S\u00e9nat en y nommant leurs partisans, mais que les membres lib\u00e9raux au sein du S\u00e9nat ne sont pas partisans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2365789\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais rappeler \u00e0 la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"128311\" href=\"/politicians/carolyn-bennett/\" title=\"Carolyn Bennett\">St. Paul's</a> l'orgie de nominations effectu\u00e9es en 1984 par John Turner sur l'ordre de l'ancien premier ministre Trudeau, dont s'est ensuivi un d\u00e9bat qui a chang\u00e9 la donne lors de la campagne \u00e9lectorale, alors que M. Mulroney a reproch\u00e9 \u00e0 M. Turner de ne pas avoir refus\u00e9 de remplir le S\u00e9nat de laquais et de collecteurs de fonds du Parti lib\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2365790\" data-originallang=\"en\">Essentiellement, le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> poursuit la tradition \u00e9tablie par le Parti lib\u00e9ral au cours du dernier si\u00e8cle et nous voulons mettre un terme \u00e0 cette pratique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2365791\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 aimerait-il ajouter quelques observations au sujet du d\u00e9sint\u00e9r\u00eat des lib\u00e9raux quant \u00e0 la modification du S\u00e9nat?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/3/3/jim-maloway-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jim-maloway/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1111/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3779148",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion--Representation in Parliament",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/3/3/",
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}
}