Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2013-02-13 14:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. John McKay (Scarborough\u2014Guildwood, Lib.)",
        "fr": "L'hon. John McKay (Scarborough\u2014Guildwood, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3183068\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, speaking truth to power is difficult at the best of times, but the Conservative government has created a special section in hell for those men and women in public life who have the temerity to be speak truth to power.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183069\" data-originallang=\"en\">Kevin Page joins an ever-growing list of heroic parliamentary officers who have challenged the almighty Conservative propaganda machine. He has been the ultimate challenger to a fact-free government, pointing out inconvenient truths just as the machine is revving into high gear.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183070\" data-originallang=\"en\">Unassuming and polite to a fault, the tax weary public has developed a fondness for his candour and evidence-based analysis. The more cabinet ministers attack him, the more he grows in public esteem. Whether it is the F-35, the Treasury Board cuts or every budget presented by the government, the PBO and Kevin Page have been more often right than wrong. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183071\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do not know where the future will take Mr. Page, but he has set a very high bar in speaking truth to power, and we in the Liberal Party wish him well. Mr. Page, truth gets you heaven; untruth, the other place.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3183068\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, s'il est difficile de dire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 aux autorit\u00e9s en place, ce l'est encore davantage quand il s'agit du gouvernement conservateur puisque celui-ci a cr\u00e9\u00e9 une section sp\u00e9ciale en enfer pour les titulaires de charge publique qui ont l'audace de lui dire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183069\" data-originallang=\"en\">Kevin Page joint les rangs d'un groupe grandissant d'h\u00e9ro\u00efques agents du Parlement qui ont contest\u00e9 la toute puissante machine \u00e0 propagande des conservateurs. M. Page s'est r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 un remarquable critique de ce gouvernement d\u00e9tach\u00e9 des faits, en soulignant des v\u00e9rit\u00e9s qui d\u00e9rangent au moment m\u00eame o\u00f9 la machine passe \u00e0 la cinqui\u00e8me vitesse. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183070\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les canadiens surtax\u00e9s se sont pris d'affection pour cet homme excessivement modeste, poli et honn\u00eate qui pr\u00e9sente des analyses fond\u00e9es sur les faits. Plus les ministres l'attaquent, plus il gagne l'estime de la population. Que ce soit au sujet des F-35, des compressions du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor ou de tout budget pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par le gouvernement, la grande majorit\u00e9 du temps, Kevin Page et les membres de son \u00e9quipe avaient raison.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183071\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne sais pas ce que l'avenir r\u00e9serve \u00e0 M. Page, mais il a plac\u00e9 tr\u00e8s haut la barre en disant la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 aux autorit\u00e9s, et nous, du Parti lib\u00e9ral, nous lui souhaitons bonne chance. Monsieur Page, la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 m\u00e8ne au ciel et les fausset\u00e9s, \u00e0 l'autre endroit.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/2/13/john-mckay-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/john-mckay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1423/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7888606",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Parliamentary Budget Officer",
        "fr": "Le directeur parlementaire du budget"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/2/13/",
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    }
}