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{
"time": "2015-12-09 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer\u2014Lacombe, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Blaine Calkins (Red Deer\u2014Lacombe, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4173906\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the government cannot just excuse this kind of improper behaviour. Now the Liberals are selling access to Christmas, so it would seem. The rules are actually very clear: ministers are not allowed to use their positions for partisan purposes. However, the <a data-HoCid=\"214310\" href=\"/politicians/catherine-mckenna/\" title=\"Catherine McKenna\">environment minister</a> has also used her position to recruit support for the Liberal Party.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4173907\" data-originallang=\"en\">The current government left Canadians with the impression that it would do things differently. Can the <a data-HoCid=\"214310\" href=\"/politicians/catherine-mckenna/\" title=\"Catherine McKenna\">environment minister</a> assure Canadians that this will never happen again? Do we need to be the government's conscience all the time?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4173906\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le gouvernement ne peut pas tout simplement excuser un tel comportement inacceptable. Les lib\u00e9raux monnayent maintenant l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 No\u00ebl, ou c\u2019est ce qu\u2019il semble. Les r\u00e8gles sont en fait tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cises: les ministres n\u2019ont pas le droit d\u2019utiliser leur poste \u00e0 des fins partisanes. Or, la <a data-HoCid=\"214310\" href=\"/politicians/catherine-mckenna/\" title=\"Catherine McKenna\">ministre de l'Environnement</a> a \u00e9galement utilis\u00e9 son poste pour aller chercher des appuis pour le Parti lib\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4173907\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement actuel avait donn\u00e9 l\u2019impression aux Canadiens qu\u2019il ferait les choses autrement. La <a data-HoCid=\"214310\" href=\"/politicians/catherine-mckenna/\" title=\"Catherine McKenna\">ministre de l'Environnement</a> peut-elle assurer aux Canadiens qu\u2019une telle chose ne se reproduira plus jamais? Devons-nous agir comme la conscience du gouvernement en tout temps? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/12/9/blaine-calkins-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/blaine-calkins/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4320/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8762009",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Ethics",
"fr": "L'\u00e9thique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/12/9/",
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}
}