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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": "2013-02-28 15:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Sylvain Chicoine",
"fr": "M. Sylvain Chicoine"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3209638\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"170307\" href=\"/politicians/tarik-brahmi/\" title=\"Tarik Brahmi\">Saint-Jean</a> for his comments and his entirely accurate observations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3209639\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We see in the committees that nothing suits the government, and often the witnesses they invite are not completely free to state their opinions or real, scientific facts. Nothing we propose suits it. That is more than despicable, because this government is anti-democratic in a number of ways. The way it behaves is quite frustrating, and not just in the House of Commons where it constantly muzzles us and imposes gag orders. It also uses its majority in committees to present bogus studies, and so on.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3209640\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The government\u2019s behaviour is simply despicable. That is the word that comes to mind, and that is what it is. It cannot be repeated often enough. With this government, doing anything in the House of Commons or in committee is an exercise in frustration.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3209638\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"170307\" href=\"/politicians/tarik-brahmi/\" title=\"Tarik Brahmi\">Saint-Jean</a> de ses commentaires et de ses observations tout \u00e0 fait justes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3209639\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On s'aper\u00e7oit dans les comit\u00e9s que rien n'est bon pour le gouvernement et que, souvent, les t\u00e9moins qu'ils invitent ne sont pas totalement libres d'exprimer leur opinion ou des faits scientifiques et r\u00e9els. Rien de ce que nous apportons n'est bon pour lui. C'est plus qu'abject, car ce gouvernement est antid\u00e9mocratique de plusieurs fa\u00e7ons. La fa\u00e7on dont il se comporte est assez frustrante, et pas seulement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes o\u00f9 il nous muselle constamment et o\u00f9 il impose des b\u00e2illons. De plus, il utilise sa majorit\u00e9 dans les comit\u00e9s pour apporter des \u00e9tudes bidon, et j'en passe.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3209640\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Le comportement du gouvernement est carr\u00e9ment abject. C'est le mot qui me vient et c'est le cas. On ne le r\u00e9p\u00e9tera jamais assez. Avec ce gouvernement, c'est frustrant d'agir \u00e0 la Chambre des communes et en comit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/2/28/sylvain-chicoine-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sylvain-chicoine/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4133/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7910744",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act",
"fr": "Loi visant \u00e0 accro\u00eetre la responsabilit\u00e9 de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/2/28/",
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}
}