Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2013-05-23 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Pat Martin (Winnipeg-Centre, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3355398\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Canadians are witnessing the death rattle of an archaic, outdated and expensive anachronism. With false residency claims, double-dipping expenses and political stumping at the taxpayers' expense, the Senate has gone from an expensive nuisance to a national disgrace. It is more in sadness than in anger as Canadians watch this abuse and the ethical lapses unfurl. We were promised that things would be different, but instead the legacy of the administration will be $16 glasses of orange juice and an almost comical clich\u00e9 of hog-troughing senators.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3355399\" data-originallang=\"en\">Grassroots Conservatives must be horrified that this administration has more in common with Grant Devine than with Preston Manning. Conservatives squandered their chance to do anything meaningful with their minority government. When we ask ourselves what they have accomplished with their majority government, they abolished the gun registry and the Canadian Wheat Board. Whoop-de-do-dah-day. Pretty thin gruel for a strong, stable majority Conservative government. What a pathetic waste of an opportunity to build a better Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3355400\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Senate of Canada should be abolished. That is plain and simple.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3355398\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les Canadiens sont t\u00e9moins du r\u00e2le d'agonie d'une institution anachronique \u00e0 la fois archa\u00efque, d\u00e9pass\u00e9e et co\u00fbteuse. \u00c0 la suite des fausses d\u00e9clarations de r\u00e9sidence, du cumul de d\u00e9penses et des campagnes politiques aux frais des contribuables, le S\u00e9nat est pass\u00e9 de nuisance co\u00fbteuse \u00e0 honte nationale. C'est avec tristesse plut\u00f4t qu'avec col\u00e8re que les Canadiens assistent \u00e0 la tournure que prennent ces d\u00e9rives et ces manquements \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique. Le gouvernement nous avait promis que les choses seraient diff\u00e9rentes, mais il restera dans les annales pour des verres de jus d'orange \u00e0 16 $ et l'image presque comique de s\u00e9nateurs qui se vautrent dans l'assiette au beurre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3355399\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les militants conservateurs de la base doivent \u00eatre horrifi\u00e9s de constater que ce gouvernement a plus de choses en commun avec Grant Devine qu'avec Preston Manning. Les conservateurs ont laiss\u00e9 passer l'occasion de faire quoi que ce soit d'utile lorsqu'ils formaient un gouvernement minoritaire. Depuis qu'ils forment un gouvernement majoritaire, ils ont aboli le registre des armes \u00e0 feu ainsi que la Commission canadienne du bl\u00e9, voil\u00e0 ce qu'ils ont accompli. <em>Wow!</em> C'est plut\u00f4t mince pour un gouvernement conservateur majoritaire fort et stable. Quelle belle occasion rat\u00e9e de b\u00e2tir un meilleur Canada, c'est path\u00e9tique. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3355400\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le S\u00e9nat du Canada devrait purement et simplement \u00eatre aboli.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/5/23/pat-martin-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8030680",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Democratic Reform",
        "fr": "La r\u00e9forme d\u00e9mocratique"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/5/23/",
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}