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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2011-06-24 06:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kennedy Stewart",
"fr": "M. Kennedy Stewart"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2450274\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I thank the hon. member for the question. I enjoy being with her in the House here. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2450275\" data-originallang=\"en\">My point is that the government has gone to this too quickly. There is still time for negotiation, and it was indeed the crown corporation that locked out the workers. The government does owe it to the workers and the managers of Canada Post to try to work this out. Forcing people back to work this quickly sends a bad signal. We talk about market signals all the time. This is a bad signal to other companies and to other crown corporations that this is going to be the answer to every labour problem: that we will not work through various solutions, we will go right to the hammer. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2450276\" data-originallang=\"en\">That is unfortunate, because it does not leave anything in reserve. If you use the hammer all the time, nobody ever sees the feather. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2450274\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de sa question. J\u2019appr\u00e9cie d\u2019\u00eatre ici \u00e0 la Chambre avec elle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2450275\" data-originallang=\"en\">J\u2019estime que le gouvernement a agi trop rapidement dans ce dossier. Il est encore temps de n\u00e9gocier et c\u2019est la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019\u00c9tat qui a impos\u00e9 le lock-out aux travailleurs. Le gouvernement a l\u2019obligation envers les travailleurs et les dirigeants de Postes Canada d\u2019essayer de trouver une solution. S\u2019il force les gens \u00e0 reprendre le travail aussi rapidement, cela envoie un mauvais signal. Nous parlons constamment de signaux du march\u00e9. C\u2019est un mauvais signal pour les autres entreprises et les autres soci\u00e9t\u00e9s d\u2019\u00c9tat qui verront l\u00e0 la r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 tout probl\u00e8me syndical: nous ne chercherons pas \u00e0 examiner diverses solutions, nous prendrons imm\u00e9diatement des mesures draconiennes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2450276\" data-originallang=\"en\">C\u2019est regrettable, car cela ne laisse rien en r\u00e9serve. Si vous utilisez constamment le marteau, personne ne verra la plume.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/6/23/kennedy-stewart-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kennedy-stewart/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4100/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3932837",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act",
"fr": "Loi sur le r\u00e9tablissement de la livraison du courrier aux Canadiens"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/6/23/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2011%2F6%2F23%2F"
}
}