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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2014-05-02 12:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Romeo Saganash",
"fr": "M. Romeo Saganash"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3691559\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, let me reiterate some of the points I just mentioned. It is important that whenever we deal with legislation in our country, we ensure that our constitutional obligations are respected. We ensure that the fundamental rights of first nations and aboriginal peoples are not violated. This is what is going on here. The government has not consulted with first nations. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3691560\" data-originallang=\"en\">A couple of them are saying yes, but the vast majority of first nations people and organizations have not been consulted, and that is a constitutional problem. Conservatives are not respecting our constitutional duties to consult and accommodate first nations concerns expressed vis-\u00e0-vis this bill and that needs to happen. I will not put aside my constitutional right for a moment to allow them to pass this legislation, because the future of my children is too important for that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3691559\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, permettez-moi de r\u00e9p\u00e9ter quelques-uns des aspects dont je viens de parler. Il est important de veiller \u00e0 ce que tout projet de loi pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au Canada respecte nos obligations en vertu de la Constitution. Ainsi, nous nous assurons de ne pas violer les droits fondamentaux des Premi\u00e8res Nations et des peuples autochtones. Or, c'est ce qui est arriv\u00e9 dans le cadre de ce projet de loi, car le gouvernement a omis de consulter les Premi\u00e8res Nations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3691560\" data-originallang=\"en\"> La vaste majorit\u00e9 des membres et des organisations des Premi\u00e8res Nations, sauf quelques-uns d'entre eux, n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 consult\u00e9e, ce qui pose un probl\u00e8me constitutionnel. Les conservateurs n'ont pas respect\u00e9 le devoir que nous avons, en vertu de la Constitution, de consulter les Premi\u00e8res Nations et de les accommoder en r\u00e9pondant \u00e0 leurs pr\u00e9occupations \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard du projet de loi. Or, c'est ce que nous devons faire. Je ne me priverai pas de mon droit constitutionnel pour que les conservateurs puissent faire adopter cette mesure l\u00e9gislative. L'avenir de mes enfants est trop important pour que j'agisse ainsi.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/5/2/romeo-saganash-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/romeo-saganash/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4064/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8335902",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act",
"fr": "Loi sur le contr\u00f4le par les premi\u00e8res nations de leurs syst\u00e8mes d'\u00e9ducation"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/5/2/",
"related": {
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}
}