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{
"time": "2012-10-16 11:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Judy Foote (Random\u2014Burin\u2014St. George's, Lib.)",
"fr": "Mme Judy Foote (Random\u2014Burin\u2014St. George's, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3005300\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will be splitting my time with the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170450\" href=\"/politicians/joyce-murray/\" title=\"Joyce Murray\">Vancouver Quadra</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3005301\" data-originallang=\"en\">I rise today to speak to the Liberal opposition motion calling on the House to do the following:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005302\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [I]nstruct the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to study what reasonable limits should be placed on the consideration of omnibus legislation and that the Committee report back its findings, including specific recommendations for legislative measures or changes to the Standing Orders, no later than December 10, 2012. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005303\" data-originallang=\"en\">To fully understand our motion, let us begin by examining what an omnibus bill is. Chapter 16, page 724 of O'Brien and Bosc, <em>House of Commons Procedure and Practice</em>, explains:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005304\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [T]here is no precise definition of an omnibus bill. In general, an omnibus bill seeks to amend, repeal or enact several initiatives. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005305\" data-originallang=\"en\">Citing Speaker Fraser's ruling of June 8, 1988, O'Brien and Bosc further state that an omnibus has:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005306\" data-originallang=\"en\"> \u2014one basic principle or purpose which ties together all the proposed enactments and thereby renders a bill intelligible for parliamentary purposes. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005307\" data-originallang=\"en\">As Canadians await the impending sequel to the Conservative government's March omnibus bill, they clearly remember Bill <a data-HoCid=\"5514128\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-38/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures\">C-38</a>. Under the guise of implementing the budget, this 425-page Conservative omnibus bill amended more than 70 individual acts affecting an extensive list of departments, including 150 pages dedicated to gutting critical environmental protections and drastically changing the employment insurance program.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3005308\" data-originallang=\"en\">We can look at the media's response to this; it is not just Canadians from coast to coast to coast. An editorial in the <em>Globe and Mail</em> stated:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005309\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The federal government's 452-page omnibus budget bill contains too much for adequate consideration by Parliament, because it is really more than budget-implementation legislation. Only some portions of it are about public finance, that is, about such matters as income tax, sales tax and federal-provincial fiscal arrangements. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005310\" data-originallang=\"en\">Another editorial in the <em>Toronto Star</em> said:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005311\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This is political sleight-of-hand and message control, and it appears to be an accelerating trend. These shabby tactics keep Parliament in the dark, swamp MPs with so much legislation that they can\u2019t absorb it all, and hobble scrutiny. This is not good, accountable, transparent government. It is not what Harper promised to deliver. </p>\n</blockquote>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3005300\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vais partager mon temps de parole avec la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"170450\" href=\"/politicians/joyce-murray/\" title=\"Joyce Murray\">Vancouver Quadra</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3005301\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je souhaite parler de la motion de l'opposition pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les lib\u00e9raux pour que la Chambre:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005302\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] ordonne au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre d\u2019\u00e9tudier les limites raisonnables qui devraient encadrer l\u2019examen d\u2019un projet de loi omnibus, et que le Comit\u00e9 fasse rapport de ses constatations et formule des recommandations relatives \u00e0 des mesures l\u00e9gislatives ou \u00e0 des modifications du R\u00e8glement, au plus tard le 10 d\u00e9cembre 2012. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005303\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour bien comprendre notre motion, commen\u00e7ons par examiner la d\u00e9finition d'un projet de loi omnibus. Au chapitre 16 de <em>La proc\u00e9dure et les usages de la Chambre des communes</em>, l'ouvrage d'O'Brien et Bosc, \u00e0 la page 724, on dit ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005304\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [i]l n\u2019existe pas de d\u00e9finition pr\u00e9cise d\u2019un projet de loi omnibus [...]. En g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, il vise \u00e0 modifier, \u00e0 abroger ou \u00e0 adopter plusieurs lois \u00e0 la fois. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005305\" data-originallang=\"en\">Citant la d\u00e9cision rendue le 8 juin 1988 par le Pr\u00e9sident Fraser, l'O'Brien et Bosc dit \u00e9galement ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005306\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] le projet de loi omnibus a cependant \u00ab un seul principe de base et un seul objet fondamental qui justifie toutes les mesures envisag\u00e9es et qui rend le projet de loi intelligible \u00e0 des fins parlementaires \u00bb. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005307\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les Canadiens attendent la suite imminente du projet de loi omnibus pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 en mars par le gouvernement conservateur, et ils se souviennent bien du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"5514128\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-38/\" title=\"An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012 and other measures\">C-38</a>. Cette mesure pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les conservateurs qui se voulait un projet de loi d'ex\u00e9cution du budget \u00e9tait en fait un projet de loi omnibus de 425 pages qui visait \u00e0 modifier plus de 70 lois diff\u00e9rentes touchant de nombreux minist\u00e8res. En outre, 150 pages visaient \u00e0 vider de leur substance des protections environnementales essentielles et \u00e0 modifier de fa\u00e7on draconienne le r\u00e9gime d'assurance-emploi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3005308\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous pouvons voir non seulement la r\u00e9action des Canadiens partout au pays, mais aussi celle des m\u00e9dias. Par exemple, on pouvait lire ceci dans un \u00e9ditorial du <em>Globe and Mail</em>:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005309\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le projet de loi omnibus de 452 pages pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral est trop volumineux pour \u00eatre \u00e9tudi\u00e9 ad\u00e9quatement par le Parlement, car en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, ce n'est pas qu'un projet de loi d'ex\u00e9cution du budget. Seules certaines parties de ce projet de loi concernent les finances, c'est-\u00e0-dire, entre autres, l'imp\u00f4t sur le revenu, la taxe de vente et les accords fiscaux entre le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral et les provinces. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005310\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici ce qu'a dit un autre \u00e9ditorial publi\u00e9 par le <em>Toronto Star</em>:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3005311\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Il s'agit d'un tour de passe-passe politique enrob\u00e9 de mystification verbale, et il semble que cette tendance s'acc\u00e9l\u00e8re. Ces tactiques fourbes maintiennent le Parlement dans l'ignorance, inondent les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de dispositions l\u00e9gislatives, de telle sorte qu'ils ne sont pas capables de tout absorber, et en entrave l'examen rigoureux. C'est une mani\u00e8re de gouverner qui n'est ni bonne, ni responsable, ni transparente. Ce n'est pas ce que M. Harper avait promis. </p>\n</blockquote>"
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"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
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"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
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"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Omnibus Legislation",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les projets de loi omnibus"
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