Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2014-09-29 13:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. John McKay (Scarborough\u2014Guildwood, Lib.)",
        "fr": "L'hon. John McKay (Scarborough\u2014Guildwood, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3833306\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it seems to me, after listening to the debate for an hour or so, that this boils down to what you would rightly chastise me for if I asked a question. If I did not ask a question within the administrative responsibility of the government, you would stand up and rule me out of order. However, on the other side, if the response has nothing to do with the administrative responsibilities of the government, you would not rule that response out of order.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3833307\" data-originallang=\"en\">It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that if you are in the position where you are compelling members of the opposition to restrict their questions to the administrative responsibilities of government, similarly, the Speaker should restrict the response to being within the administrative responsibilities of the government rather than the perfidious thing that some member of some party might have done at some time in the past.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3833308\" data-originallang=\"en\">If that were the outcome of this debate, it seems that we would have actually made some progress in terms of making Parliament relevant. I would be interested in my learned colleague's comments on that.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3833306\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9cout\u00e9 le d\u00e9bat pendant environ une heure, il me semble qu'en fin de compte, il est question ici des raisons pour lesquelles vous d\u00e9termineriez, comme vous \u00eates en droit de le faire, que ma question n'est pas pertinente. Ainsi, si je posais une question qui ne rel\u00e8ve pas de la responsabilit\u00e9 administrative du gouvernement, vous interviendriez et diriez que ma question est irrecevable. Par contre, si la r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 ma question n'avait rien \u00e0 voir avec la responsabilit\u00e9 administrative du gouvernement, vous ne jugeriez pas que cette r\u00e9ponse est irrecevable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3833307\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il me semble, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, que si vous obligez les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l'opposition \u00e0 limiter leurs questions \u00e0 la responsabilit\u00e9 administrative du gouvernement, parall\u00e8lement, vous devriez obliger la personne qui r\u00e9pond \u00e0 ces questions \u00e0 s'en tenir \u00e0 la responsabilit\u00e9 administrative du gouvernement, au lieu d'accepter des r\u00e9ponses perfides comme celles qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 fournies par le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'un certain parti \u00e0 un moment donn\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3833308\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le d\u00e9bat d'aujourd'hui permettait d'atteindre cet objectif, je crois que nous contribuerions \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 du Parlement. J'aimerais savoir ce que mon \u00e9minent coll\u00e8gue a \u00e0 dire \u00e0 ce sujet.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2014/9/29/john-mckay-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/john-mckay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1423/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8451461",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Changes to Standing Orders",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les changements au R\u00e8glement"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2014/9/29/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2014%2F9%2F29%2F"
    }
}