Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2013-06-06 00:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Anne-Marie Day (Charlesbourg\u2014Haute-Saint-Charles, NDP)",
        "fr": "Mme Anne-Marie Day (Charlesbourg\u2014Haute-Saint-Charles, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3388289\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I am taking the time to follow up on a question I raised in the House. We feel that the response the government gave Canadians is absolutely pathetic. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388290\" data-originallang=\"fr\">As I recall, I was talking about a case in New Brunswick and who can or cannot be an employee of the public service. The parliamentary secretary responded that they had put forward employment insurance reforms to better connect Canadians with available jobs, which had absolutely nothing to do with the question I asked.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388291\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Canadians expect their administrative tribunals to be just, fair and accessible, not a haven for defeated Conservative candidates and party donors who pocket fat salaries paid with taxpayers' hard-earned money. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388292\" data-originallang=\"fr\">However, instead of having an employment insurance system that is accessible and an appeal system that workers can trust, the Conservatives are completely destroying the legitimacy of appeal bodies by obviously stacking them with their best friends.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388293\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Among the candidates appointed so far to the Social Security Tribunal we have Valerie Parker, who donated $1,450 to the Conservative Party; Leroy Legere, a former MP and provincial Conservative minister in Nova Scotia; Pierre Lafontaine, a defeated Conservative candidate in Jeanne-Le Ber in the 2011 election; Jean-Philippe Payment, a defeated Conservative candidate in Terrebonne\u2014Blainville in 2011; Claude Durand, a defeated candidate in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res in 2008, Alcide Boudreault, a defeated candidate in Chicoutimi\u2014Le Fjord in 2004 and 2006; Shane Parker, who fought for the Conservative nomination in Saskatoon\u2014Rosetown\u2014Biggar in 2008; Kelley Sherwood, a Reform Party activist since 1997; Mr. Provo, a former provincial Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia during the 2006 and 2009 elections.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388294\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I could go on like that until the end of my speech, but I would run out of time. All these people are now working for a tidy figure somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100,000, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388295\" data-originallang=\"fr\">How can the minister explain the so-called merit on which these appointments to the Social Security Tribunal are based? We want justice for employment insurance claimants at a time when the training people are being asked to take has nothing to do with the work they are being asked to do.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388296\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Other than contributing to the Conservative Party coffers, what merit do these people have?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3388289\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends le temps de revenir sur l'une des questions que j'ai pos\u00e9e \u00e0 la Chambre. Nous consid\u00e9rons que la r\u00e9ponse que le gouvernement a offerte aux Canadiens est absolument lamentable. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388290\" data-originallang=\"fr\">De m\u00e9moire, je parlais alors d'un cas du Nouveau-Brunswick et de qui peut ou ne peut pas \u00eatre un employ\u00e9 de la fonction publique. La secr\u00e9taire parlementaire m'avait r\u00e9pondu qu'ils avaient propos\u00e9 une r\u00e9forme de l'assurance-emploi pour mieux aiguiller les Canadiens vers les emplois disponibles, ce qui n'avait aucun sens par rapport \u00e0 la question pos\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388291\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les Canadiens s'attendent \u00e0 ce que leurs tribunaux administratifs soient justes, \u00e9quitables et accessibles, et non pas un refuge pour les candidats conservateurs d\u00e9faits et les donateurs du parti qui empochent de gros salaires pay\u00e9s \u00e0 m\u00eame l'argent durement gagn\u00e9 des contribuables. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388292\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Toutefois, au lieu d'avoir un r\u00e9gime d'assurance-emploi accessible et un syst\u00e8me d'appel auxquels les travailleurs peuvent faire confiance, les conservateurs d\u00e9truisent compl\u00e8tement la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 de ces instances d'appel en y pla\u00e7ant \u00e9videmment leurs meilleurs amis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388293\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Parmi les candidats nomm\u00e9s jusqu'\u00e0 maintenant au Tribunal de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sociale, on retrouve Valerie Parker, qui a donn\u00e9 1 450 $ au Parti conservateur; Leroy Legere, un ancien d\u00e9put\u00e9 et ministre conservateur provincial en Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse; Pierre Lafontaine, un candidat conservateur d\u00e9fait dans Jeanne-Le Ber \u00e0 l'\u00e9lection de 2011; Jean-Philippe Payment, un candidat conservateur d\u00e9fait dans Terrebonne\u2014Blainville en 2011; Claude Durand, une candidate d\u00e9faite dans Trois-Rivi\u00e8res en 2008, Alcide Boudreault, un candidat d\u00e9fait \u00e0 Chicoutimi\u2014Le Fjord en 2004 et 2006; Shane Parker, qui a disput\u00e9 l'investiture conservatrice dans Saskatoon\u2014Rosetown\u2014Biggar en 2008; Kelley Sherwood, une activiste du Reform Party depuis 1997; M. Provo, un ancien candidat provincial conservateur de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse aux \u00e9lections de 2006 et 2009.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388294\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je pourrais continuer ainsi jusqu'\u00e0 la fin de mon discours, mais je manquerais de temps. Toutes ces personnes travaillent maintenant pour de jolies sommes rondelettes avoisinant 100 000 $, gracieuset\u00e9 des contribuables canadiens. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388295\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Comment la ministre peut-elle expliquer le suppos\u00e9 \u00ab m\u00e9rite \u00bb sur lequel sont bas\u00e9es ces nominations au Tribunal de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sociale? Nous aimerions que justice soit faite dans les dossiers de l'assurance-emploi et que la formation qu'on leur demande de faire provient de milieux compl\u00e8tement impertinents \u00e0 la nature du travail qu'on leur demande de faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3388296\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Le seul m\u00e9rite de ces gens est-il d'avoir contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la caisse du Parti conservateur?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/6/5/anne-marie-day-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/anne-marie-day/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4131/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8060388",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Employment Insurance",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/6/5/",
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