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{
    "time": "2015-02-23 16:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3980564\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, many of my NDP colleagues have raised serious and grave concerns, but I think that Canadians who are watching the debate do have to understand that SIRC has not been devoid of partisan influence. I would like the hon. member to speak to that. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980565\" data-originallang=\"en\">The head of SIRC was a Conservative bagman who is now in jail in Panama. How does the member stand up in the House and talk about these oversight agencies as being non-partisan when they in fact have been?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3980564\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, mes coll\u00e8gues du NPD sont nombreux \u00e0 avoir soulev\u00e9 des objections s\u00e9rieuses, mais je pense que les Canadiens qui assistent au d\u00e9bat doivent comprendre que le Comit\u00e9 de surveillance des activit\u00e9s de renseignement de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 n'est pas \u00e0 l'abri des influences partisanes. Je voudrais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 nous dise quelques mots \u00e0 ce sujet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3980565\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'ancien pr\u00e9sident du Comit\u00e9 de surveillance des activit\u00e9s de renseignement de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e9tait un collecteur de fonds du Parti conservateur. Il est actuellement en prison au Panama. Comment le d\u00e9put\u00e9 peut-il soutenir dans cette enceinte que les organismes de surveillance sont apolitiques lorsqu'il est en fait d\u00e9montr\u00e9 qu'ils sont partisans?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/2/23/andrew-cash-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-cash/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4075/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8590418",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Anti-terrorism Act, 2015",
        "fr": "Loi antiterroriste de 2015"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/2/23/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F2%2F23%2F"
    }
}