Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2014-05-27 16:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Michelle Rempel (Minister of State (Western Economic Diversification), CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Michelle Rempel (ministre d\u2019\u00c9tat (Diversification de l\u2019\u00e9conomie de l\u2019Ouest), PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3750465\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"170542\" href=\"/politicians/elizabeth-may/\" title=\"Elizabeth May\">Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands</a> made the comment, and I am not sure if I have the wording exactly right, \u201cI don't know why we sit here late. I don't know why we do this. There's no one here. There's no one debating\u201d. I wonder if there is something to be said about that. There are often times we have this discussion in the media and whatnot about the efficacy of Parliament and why we do this and why we sit here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3750466\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could my colleague comment, and I am trying to ask a non-partisan question here, about personal ownership as a member of Parliament to come to debate prepared, to understand the order paper, to understand our constituents' position and take that personal ownership to come and participate in debate?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3750467\" data-originallang=\"en\">As we wind down the session, we have a lot of opportunities to speak to some very important legislation. Certainly, these extended hours will provide opportunity to do that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3750468\" data-originallang=\"en\">I take issue with the question or the supposition that there is not a point in having these late hours, as was presented earlier in a previous question. Could the member comment on that?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3750465\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ma coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"170542\" href=\"/politicians/elizabeth-may/\" title=\"Elizabeth May\">Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands</a> a dit ceci \u2014 je ne suis pas certaine de la citer textuellement: \u00ab Je ne sais pas pourquoi nous si\u00e9geons tard ici. Je ne sais pas pourquoi nous faisons cela. Il n'y a personne ici. Personne ne d\u00e9bat. \u00bb Je me demande s'il y a quelque chose \u00e0 dire l\u00e0-dessus. Nous voyons souvent dans les m\u00e9dias ce genre de propos et d'autres choses du genre sur l'efficacit\u00e9 du Parlement et les raisons pour lesquelles nous faisons cela et nous si\u00e9geons ici.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3750466\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 nous dirait-il ce qu'il pense \u2014 et je pose l\u00e0 une question que je veux d\u00e9nu\u00e9e de toute partisanerie \u2014 de la responsabilit\u00e9 personnelle des d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'arriver \u00e0 la Chambre pr\u00e9par\u00e9s, de comprendre le <em>Feuilleton</em>, de comprendre la position de leurs \u00e9lecteurs et de participer au d\u00e9bat?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3750467\" data-originallang=\"en\">Alors que la session tire \u00e0 sa fin, nous avons de nombreuses occasions de parler de mesures l\u00e9gislatives tr\u00e8s importantes. La prolongation des heures de s\u00e9ance nous permettra s\u00fbrement de le faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3750468\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ceux qui estiment qu'il est inutile de prolonger les heures de s\u00e9ance, comme on l'a suppos\u00e9 dans une question pos\u00e9e pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 nous dirait-il ce qu'il en pense?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2014/5/27/michelle-rempel-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/michelle-rempel/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4118/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8379043",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Extension of Sitting Hours",
        "fr": "La prolongation des heures de s\u00e9ance"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2014/5/27/",
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}