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{
"time": "2015-02-18 15:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3976353\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the minister said that the bill is well balanced. We certainly question that. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3976354\" data-originallang=\"en\">Moreover, the minister stated that SIRC, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, provides third-party oversight. Sadly, at the beginning of this debate, the minister has already misinformed the House. Let me quote from SIRC's annual report:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3976355\" data-originallang=\"en\">An oversight body looks on a continual basis at what is taking place inside an intelligence service and has the mandate to evaluate and guide current actions in \u201creal time.\u201d SIRC is a review body, so unlike an oversight agency....</p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3976356\" data-originallang=\"en\">SIRC claims that it is not an oversight agency. Why is the minister continuing to claim that it is? His seconder to this bill, the current <a data-HoCid=\"194629\" href=\"/politicians/peter-mackay/\" title=\"Peter MacKay\">Minister of Justice</a>, was part of a report in 2004 that called for proper oversight, similar to what our Five Eyes have. He, at the time, refuted that SIRC is a proper oversight agency. Why did the minister leave oversight out of this bill? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3976353\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le ministre a dit que le projet de loi est \u00e9quilibr\u00e9. Nous remettons en doute ces propos.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3976354\" data-originallang=\"en\">De plus, le ministre a dit que le CSARS exerce une surveillance ind\u00e9pendante. Malheureusement, d\u00e8s le d\u00e9but du d\u00e9bat, le ministre a induit la Chambre en erreur. J'aimerais citer un extrait du rapport annuel du CSARS:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3976355\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un organisme de [surveillance] examine en permanence ce qui se passe au sein d\u2019un service de renseignement, et il a pour mandat d\u2019\u00e9valuer et de guider ses activit\u00e9s actuelles \u00ab en temps r\u00e9el \u00bb. Le CSARS est un organisme [d\u2019examen]; il peut donc, contrairement \u00e0 un organisme de [surveillance] [...]</p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"3976356\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le CSARS pr\u00e9tend qu\u2019il n\u2019est pas un organisme de surveillance. Pourquoi le ministre continue-t-il alors d\u2019affirmer qu\u2019il en est un? En 2004, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui a appuy\u00e9 ce projet de loi, l'actuel <a data-HoCid=\"194629\" href=\"/politicians/peter-mackay/\" title=\"Peter MacKay\">ministre de la Justice</a>, a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la production d'un rapport qui r\u00e9clamait une surveillance ad\u00e9quate, comme celle qui s\u2019exerce au sein de nos partenaires du Groupe des cinq. \u00c0 ce moment-l\u00e0, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 avait d\u00e9menti l'affirmation selon laquelle le CSARS est un organisme de surveillance ad\u00e9quat. Pourquoi le ministre n'a-t-il pas abord\u00e9 la question de la surveillance dans ce projet de loi?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/2/18/wayne-easter-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/wayne-easter/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3253/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8583374",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Anti-terrorism Act, 2015",
"fr": "Loi antiterroriste de 2015"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/2/18/",
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}