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{
"time": "2014-05-13 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Raymond C\u00f4t\u00e9 (Beauport\u2014Limoilou, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Raymond C\u00f4t\u00e9 (Beauport\u2014Limoilou, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3718395\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170529\" href=\"/politicians/costas-menegakis/\" title=\"Costas Menegakis\">Richmond Hill</a> certainly has enough hot air to brag about this bill. I actually do not know how he manages to meet with his constituents and tell them with a straight face that he is improving the democratic process and making it more accessible.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3718396\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In December 2005, at the press conference where I launched my first federal election campaign, I highlighted the fact that, unfortunately, 40% of our voters in Canada do not exercise their right to vote. Of that group, an even larger proportion of young and very young people, who are just becoming eligible to vote, do not participate. We are not even talking about aboriginal people who unfortunately do not participate in large numbers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3718397\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The participation rate of the most vulnerable groups of our society, which are far too easily held hostage by the powers that be, is much lower. The rate is barely 30% or 40%. In his work <em>The Price of Inequality</em>, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner in economics, described the Tea Party approach, which is used to exclude disadvantaged segments of society through methods like the ones found in 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>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3718398\" data-originallang=\"fr\">How can the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170529\" href=\"/politicians/costas-menegakis/\" title=\"Costas Menegakis\">Richmond Hill</a> exclude the weakest and most vulnerable Canadians, including those in his riding, from our country's democratic process?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3718395\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"170529\" href=\"/politicians/costas-menegakis/\" title=\"Costas Menegakis\">Richmond Hill</a> ne manque pas d'air de se vanter de ce projet de loi. Je ne sais pas comment il fait, d'ailleurs, pour aller \u00e0 la rencontre de ses concitoyens et leur dire sans rire qu'il est train d'am\u00e9liorer et de rendre plus accessible le processus d\u00e9mocratique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3718396\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En d\u00e9cembre 2005, lors du point de presse sur le lancement de ma premi\u00e8re campagne \u00e9lectorale f\u00e9d\u00e9rale, j'ai mis en lumi\u00e8re le fait que 40 % de nos \u00e9lecteurs au Canada, malheureusement, n'exer\u00e7aient pas leur droit de vote. Dans ce groupe, une proportion encore plus importante de jeunes et de tr\u00e8s jeunes, ceux qui commencent \u00e0 obtenir le droit de vote, ne participe pas. On ne parle pas non plus des Autochtones qui ne participent malheureusement pas en grand nombre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3718397\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Alors, le taux de participation des groupes les plus vuln\u00e9rables de notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9, qui sont trop facilement pris en otage par les pouvoirs en place, est encore beaucoup plus bas. Il fr\u00f4le \u00e0 peine 30 % ou 40 %. Dans son essai <em>Le prix de l'in\u00e9galit\u00e9</em>, l'\u00e9conomiste qui a re\u00e7u le prix Nobel de l'\u00e9conomie, Joseph Stiglitz, mettait le doigt sur l'approche du type Tea Party visant \u00e0 exclure \u00e0 tout prix ces couches d\u00e9favoris\u00e9es de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 en utilisant des proc\u00e9d\u00e9s qui se retrouvent dans 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>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3718398\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Comment le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"170529\" href=\"/politicians/costas-menegakis/\" title=\"Costas Menegakis\">Richmond Hill</a> peut-il exclure les plus faibles et les plus vuln\u00e9rables, incluant ceux de sa circonscription, du processus d\u00e9mocratique dans notre pays?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/5/13/raymond-cote-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/raymond-cote/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4126/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8359162",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Fair Elections Act",
"fr": "Loi sur l'int\u00e9grit\u00e9 des \u00e9lections"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/5/13/",
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}
}