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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2012-11-19 17:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Fin Donnelly",
"fr": "M. Fin Donnelly"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3080072\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, that is a very good question. It is part of an amendment that we as New Democrats put forward in committee. We wanted to see an independent audit system implemented immediately.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3080073\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is a reasonable request. I am not sure why the Conservative government would resist or refuse this very reasonable request to having an independent audit system take a look at how the system is operating. This would be good information that would benefit not only the government, but it would also benefit the department and Canadians in terms of food safety and food inspection, knowing they had a good system that operated properly.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3080074\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This is obviously not the case. This tragedy led to the largest beef recall in Canadian history. This must be averted. One way is by having independent information and oversight.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3080072\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est une tr\u00e8s bonne question. Cela faisait justement partie d'un amendement propos\u00e9 par les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates au comit\u00e9. Nous r\u00e9clamions la mise en place imm\u00e9diate d'un syst\u00e8me de v\u00e9rification ind\u00e9pendant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3080073\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est une demande raisonnable. Je ne suis pas s\u00fbr de comprendre la r\u00e9sistance ou le refus du gouvernement conservateur \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de cette demande tr\u00e8s raisonnable de mettre en place un syst\u00e8me ind\u00e9pendant de v\u00e9rification des op\u00e9rations. Il mettrait \u00e0 la disposition non seulement du gouvernement mais aussi du minist\u00e8re et des Canadiens eux-m\u00eames des renseignements utiles sur la salubrit\u00e9 des aliments et les inspections alimentaires; nous pourrions ainsi rassurer les divers intervenants du bon fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3080074\" data-originallang=\"en\">De toute \u00e9vidence, le syst\u00e8me fonctionne mal \u00e0 l'heure actuelle. Cette trag\u00e9die a entra\u00een\u00e9 le plus grand rappel de produits du boeuf dans l'histoire du Canada. Il faut \u00e9viter \u00e0 tout prix qu'une telle crise se reproduise. On peut y arriver entre autres en garantissant l'exactitude des renseignements et l'ind\u00e9pendance des efforts de surveillance.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/11/19/fin-donnelly-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/fin-donnelly/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3699/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7782771",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Safe Food for Canadians Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la salubrit\u00e9 des aliments au Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/11/19/",
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}