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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": "2012-11-27 12:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jonathan Genest-Jourdain",
"fr": "M. Jonathan Genest-Jourdain"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3089067\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089068\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to point out that band councils are accountable to their own members and not to the Canadian public as a whole.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089069\" data-originallang=\"fr\">There is a biased theory that at the end of the day, our taxes support the band councils. This disregards the autonomous revenues earned by the communities and their economic dynamics. Band councils are not accountable to the entire country. The government is simply trying to please lobby groups, very specific and marginalized groups that clearly have power and influence over the current government. It is trying to please them by saying the financial information will be provided. Since it cannot go into these communities, it will find a roundabout way to get this financial information. That is wrong and the government knows it. Take my word for it: at the end of the day, the government will be exposed.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3089067\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de sa question. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089068\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vais maintenant ramener l'attention sur le fait que les conseils de bande ont une obligation de reddition de comptes \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de leurs propres membres et non pas \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de l'ensemble de la population canadienne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089069\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans un discours tendancieux, on dit qu'au final, ce sont nos taxes qui alimenteront les conseils de bande. Cela fait fi des revenus autonomes des communaut\u00e9s et de la dynamique \u00e9conomique qui s'y observe. Les conseils de bande n'ont aucune obligation de reddition de comptes \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle du pays. Ici, on tente simplement de faire plaisir \u00e0 des groupes de pression, des groupes bien cibl\u00e9s et marginalis\u00e9s, mais qui ont visiblement une ascendance et une emprise sur le gouvernement \u00e0 l'heure actuelle. On tente de leur faire plaisir en disant qu'on fournira les informations financi\u00e8res. Comme on n'est pas capable d'entrer dans ces communaut\u00e9s, on va trouver un moyen d\u00e9tourn\u00e9 de leur offrir les informations financi\u00e8res. C'est r\u00e9pr\u00e9hensible, et on le sait bien. Au bout du compte, cela exposera le gouvernement, on peut me croire sur parole.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/11/27/jonathan-genest-jourdain-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jonathan-genest-jourdain/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4059/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7812740",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "First Nations Financial Transparency Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la transparence financi\u00e8re des Premi\u00e8res Nations"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/11/27/",
"related": {
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}
}