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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2014-04-10 10:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, GP)",
"fr": "Mme Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, PV)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3659246\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will be very brief. I just wish to support the official opposition in concern. The debate in this place on Bill <a data-HoCid=\"6398775\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-23/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts\">C-23</a> could very well lead to not just it misleading Parliament, but my concern is that it would mislead the Canadian electorate. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3659247\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have had the repeated reference to 39 pieces of ID as though any one of them would allow a Canadian to vote. I know that slips are made when people are in debate, but it is very clear that one could go to the polls with six or seven pieces of ID off that list and still be denied one's right to vote, without recourse to vouching. Therefore, we need to be very careful. This is one of the reasons why bills that deal with the fairness of Canadian elections should never be dealt with in circumstances of limiting debate and pushing things through without full political consensus to support something so fundamental.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3659246\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je serai tr\u00e8s br\u00e8ve. Je tiens simplement \u00e0 appuyer l'opposition officielle. Le d\u00e9bat \u00e0 la Chambre sur le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"6398775\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-23/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts\">C-23</a> pourrait fort bien, je le crains, avoir pour effet d'induire en erreur non seulement le Parlement, mais aussi l'\u00e9lectorat canadien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3659247\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement r\u00e9p\u00e8te sans cesse qu'il existe 39 pi\u00e8ces d'identit\u00e9 possibles, comme si le fait de pr\u00e9senter une seule d'entre elles permettrait \u00e0 un Canadien de voter. Je sais qu'il arrive parfois que l'on commette des erreurs au cours d'un d\u00e9bat. Toutefois, il est tr\u00e8s clair qu'une personne pourrait se voir refuser le droit d'exercer son droit de vote m\u00eame si elle pr\u00e9sentait six ou sept des pi\u00e8ces d'identit\u00e9 \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9es dans la liste. De plus, elle n'aurait m\u00eame pas le droit d'avoir recours \u00e0 un r\u00e9pondant. Par cons\u00e9quent, nous devons faire preuve d'une grande prudence. C'est l'une des raisons pour lesquelles les projets de loi qui portent sur l'int\u00e9grit\u00e9 des \u00e9lections canadiennes, qui sont des mesures absolument fondamentales, ne devraient jamais \u00eatre \u00e9tudi\u00e9s dans un contexte o\u00f9 le gouvernement limite le d\u00e9bat et o\u00f9 le Parlement est forc\u00e9 de les adopter sans le consensus de tous les partis.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/4/10/elizabeth-may-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/elizabeth-may/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4108/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8314041",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Privilege",
"fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Remarks by Minister of State for Democratic Reform",
"fr": "Les commentaires du ministre d'\u00c9tat \u00e0 la R\u00e9forme d\u00e9mocratique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/4/10/",
"related": {
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}
}