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{
"time": "2014-09-16 21:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Romeo Saganash",
"fr": "M. Romeo Saganash"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3823819\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague opposite for the question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823820\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Of course, the political situation is critical, not only in Iraq, but also all over the world. Each country must address these situations in its foreign policy. These policies are being challenged, to put it mildly. There are currently some very difficult situations all over the world.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823821\" data-originallang=\"fr\">However, since we are talking about Canadian values, I want to say that when I arrived here in Parliament, it was my understanding that one Canadian value was that Parliament had a role to play in these types of decisions. Parliament is the highest democratic institution in our country, and parliamentarians, who are elected by the Canadian public, must be allowed to vote on decisions related to military deployments. That is a Canadian value. That is what the member's leader promised\u2014first in 2004, and against in 2005-06. He just broke his promise. I do not think that is a Canadian value.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3823819\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue d'en face de cette question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823820\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Bien s\u00fbr, la situation est critique sur le plan politique et pas seulement en Irak, mais partout dans le monde. Les politiques \u00e9trang\u00e8res de chacun des pays doivent faire face \u00e0 ces situations. Elles sont vraiment mises au d\u00e9fi, c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire. Il y a donc effectivement des situations extr\u00eamement difficiles \u00e0 l'heure actuelle, partout dans le monde.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3823821\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Cependant, encore une fois, puisqu'il est question de valeurs canadiennes, \u00e0 mon arriv\u00e9e ici, au Parlement, j'avais cru comprendre qu'une des valeurs canadiennes \u00e9tait que le Parlement avait un r\u00f4le \u00e0 jouer dans des d\u00e9cisions de ce genre. Le Parlement est l'institution d\u00e9mocratique la plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e de notre pays et on doit permettre aux parlementaires, qui sont \u00e9lus par la population canadienne, de voter sur les d\u00e9cisions de d\u00e9ploiement militaire. C'est une des valeurs canadiennes. C'est ce que le chef du d\u00e9put\u00e9 avait promis, une premi\u00e8re fois en 2004, et une deuxi\u00e8me fois en 2005-2006. Il vient de rompre sa promesse. Cela, \u00e0 mon avis, ce n'est pas une valeur canadienne.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/9/16/romeo-saganash-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/romeo-saganash/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4064/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8439633",
"h1": {
"en": "Emergency Debate",
"fr": "D\u00e9bat D'Urgence"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Situation in Iraq",
"fr": "La situation en Irak"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/9/16/",
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}