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{
"time": "2013-05-22 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Craig Scott (Toronto\u2014Danforth, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Craig Scott (Toronto\u2014Danforth, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3353726\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, they can tell that to Helena Guergis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3353727\" data-originallang=\"en\">At the very least it is clear a crime may have been committed, so why the silence from the <a data-HoCid=\"105824\" href=\"/politicians/rob-nicholson/\" title=\"Rob Nicholson\">Minister of Justice</a>? No one is buying the Conservatives' hear-no-evil approach to this issue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3353728\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Parliament of Canada Act, in section 16, states that </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3353728\" data-originallang=\"en\"> No member of the Senate shall receive...any compensation...in relation to any...matter before...a committee... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3353728\" data-originallang=\"en\"> yet according to reports, this is exactly what Mike Duffy and Nigel Wright did.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3353729\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why will the <a data-HoCid=\"105824\" href=\"/politicians/rob-nicholson/\" title=\"Rob Nicholson\">Minister of Justice</a> not concede that a crime may have been committed and call in the RCMP?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3353726\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, qu'ils aillent dire cela \u00e0 Helena Guergis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3353727\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 tout le moins, il est clair qu'un crime a peut-\u00eatre \u00e9t\u00e9 commis; pourquoi donc le <a data-HoCid=\"105824\" href=\"/politicians/rob-nicholson/\" title=\"Rob Nicholson\">ministre de la Justice</a> reste-t-il coi? Personne ne croit que les conservateurs n'ont rien vu et rien entendu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3353728\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'article 16 de la Loi sur le Parlement du Canada dit: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3353728\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Il est interdit \u00e0 tout s\u00e9nateur de recevoir [...] une r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration [...] relativement \u00e0 quelque [...] affaire devant [un comit\u00e9 parlementaire] [...] </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3353728\" data-originallang=\"en\">d'apr\u00e8s les \u00e9chos, c'est exactement ce que Mike Duffy et Nigel Wright ont fait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3353729\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le <a data-HoCid=\"105824\" href=\"/politicians/rob-nicholson/\" title=\"Rob Nicholson\">ministre de la Justice</a> ne reconna\u00eet-il pas qu'un crime a peut-\u00eatre \u00e9t\u00e9 commis et ne fait-il pas intervenir la GRC?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/5/22/craig-scott-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/craig-scott/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4150/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8025798",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": "La justice"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/5/22/",
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}
}