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{
"time": "2012-11-27 12:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jonathan Genest-Jourdain",
"fr": "M. Jonathan Genest-Jourdain"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3089073\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for the question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089074\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The concept of self-determination has been put forward, and the Canadian government supposedly supports that. A supposedly historic meeting and event was even held last January regarding the self-determination of peoples. That is what it was about. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089075\" data-originallang=\"fr\">This work needs to be done from within the communities themselves. It must be developed based on consensus. It must start from within. It is certainly not going to be achieved through a legislative initiative concocted by apparatchiks from who knows where in the pecking order. The Conservatives decided here in Ottawa, far from any of these communities, to unilaterally impose this legislation. That is not how this should happen. Yes, accountability is needed. Yes, a steady flow of information is not always available. Accountability is needed within the communities. However, it is a matter of identity in the communities, a matter of \"Indianness\u201d, and this needs to be addressed first and foremost by the community. A little housecleaning is needed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089076\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ours is a predominantly oral culture. For 20,000 years, most if not all aboriginal nations in this country were able to apply these principles of emulation. These people spoke to one another directly. This should still happen today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089077\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Accountability needs to happen above all in the community. Initiatives created by the Parliament of Canada are certainly not the answer.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3089073\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de sa question. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089074\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le concept d'autod\u00e9termination a pourtant \u00e9t\u00e9 mis en avant et le gouvernement canadien est cens\u00e9 le d\u00e9fendre. Il y a quand m\u00eame eu une sortie et une rencontre qui se voulaient historiques en janvier dernier. On parlait de l'autod\u00e9termination des peuples. C'est un peu \u00e7a. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089075\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce travail doit s'observer \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur m\u00eame des communaut\u00e9s. Cela doit \u00eatre \u00e9labor\u00e9 en vertu d'un consensus. Cela doit \u00e9maner de l'int\u00e9rieur. Ce n'est s\u00fbrement pas une initiative l\u00e9gislative pens\u00e9e par des apparatchiks issus d'on ne sait trop o\u00f9 dans la pyramide qui fonctionnera. Ils ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9, ici \u00e0 Ottawa, loin des communaut\u00e9s, d'imposer une loi de fa\u00e7on unilat\u00e9rale. Ce n'est pas de cette fa\u00e7on que cela doit se passer. Oui, une reddition de comptes doit se faire. Oui, quelquefois, la fluidit\u00e9 n'est pas n\u00e9cessairement au rendez-vous. On doit s'en rendre compte dans les communaut\u00e9s. Par contre, c'est une mati\u00e8re identitaire aux communaut\u00e9s, une mati\u00e8re de quiddit\u00e9 indienne, et ce doit \u00eatre trait\u00e9 d'abord et avant tout par la communaut\u00e9. Il doit y avoir un m\u00e9nage. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089076\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est une culture fonci\u00e8rement orale. Pendant 20 000 ans, la majorit\u00e9 sinon la totalit\u00e9 des nations aborig\u00e8nes au pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 en mesure d'appliquer ces principes d'\u00e9mulation. Ces gens se parlaient directement. Cela devrait encore s'observer aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3089077\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> La reddition de comptes se fait d'abord et avant tout dans la communaut\u00e9. Ce n'est s\u00fbrement pas une initiative \u00e9labor\u00e9e au Parlement du Canada qui favorisera le tout. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/11/27/jonathan-genest-jourdain-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jonathan-genest-jourdain/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4059/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7812776",
"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/",
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}
}