{"time": "2014-09-29 12:15:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Peter Julian", "fr": "M. Peter Julian"}, "content": {"en": "

Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member on our 10th anniversary of the class of 2004.

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I believe the Speaker has dealt with these issues in the past. We have had a number of points of order around members' declarations. What the member states is true, about it being too partisan. There has been some improvement in that. There is still a ways to go.

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The biggest hole right now in our Standing Orders is the hole that says it does not matter what the answer is. The question has to be relevant. Debate has to be relevant. Even members' statements have to be relevant, but an answer can be whatever it wants.

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That is why we are offering what is a modest contribution. It is only half of a line, but it gives the Speaker the power to say: that is not a relevant answer, that is repetition. That will improve the aura of this place, improve the tone of debate, and it will improve above all the transparency of the government. It is a modest contribution that will make things work better here in Ottawa. That is what we are all about.

", "fr": "

Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je f\u00e9licite le d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 l'occasion du 10e anniversaire de notre promotion de 2004.

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Je crois que le Pr\u00e9sident a d\u00e9j\u00e0 statu\u00e9 sur cette question dans le pass\u00e9. Le R\u00e8glement a \u00e9t\u00e9 invoqu\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs reprises concernant les d\u00e9clarations des d\u00e9put\u00e9s. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a raison lorsqu'il dit que les d\u00e9clarations sont trop partisanes. La situation s'est quelque peu am\u00e9lior\u00e9e, mais il reste encore du chemin \u00e0 faire.

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Actuellement, la plus grande lacune de notre R\u00e8glement, c'est qu'aucune disposition ne stipule que la r\u00e9ponse doit \u00eatre pertinente. La question, le d\u00e9bat et m\u00eame les d\u00e9clarations des d\u00e9put\u00e9s doivent \u00eatre pertinents, mais pas n\u00e9cessairement la r\u00e9ponse.

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Voil\u00e0 pourquoi nous proposons une modeste contribution. Il ne s'agit que d'une demi-ligne, mais cette modification donne le pouvoir au Pr\u00e9sident de d\u00e9clarer qu'une r\u00e9ponse n'est pas pertinente, que c'est une r\u00e9p\u00e9tition. Cette modification am\u00e9liorera l'atmosph\u00e8re \u00e0 la Chambre et le ton du d\u00e9bat, mais surtout la transparence du gouvernement. C'est une modeste contribution qui assurera un meilleur d\u00e9roulement des travaux \u00e0 Ottawa. Voil\u00e0 notre objectif.

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