Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-03-26 13:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Don Davies",
        "fr": "M. Don Davies"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4025335\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the short answer is no. I do not believe that the government is seriously considering that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025336\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to quote one of my constituents who wrote to me and who answered that question directly. He wrote to me and said:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4025337\" data-originallang=\"en\">The \u201cconservative\u201d election propaganda is been unbundled and the Prime Minister seems to be shifting his strategic emphasis from the economy to terrorism. Prime Minister Harper is reported to have said that \u201cJihadi terrorism is one of the most dangerous enemies our world has ever faced\u201d and \u201ca great evil has descended on our world.\u201d Does this alarming rhetoric sound familiar? Have we forgotten the \"axis of evil\" speech by President Bush more than a decade ago?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025338\" data-originallang=\"en\">Information and government actions are again being shaped to sell security and military policies? In a democracy perception management is not a substitute for government accountability and transparency? A discussion of the recent experience, current objectives and policy options would better serve our democracy?</p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4025339\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That was Dr. Robin Hanvelt who wrote to me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025340\" data-originallang=\"en\">The nub of what he is saying is that he, as a Canadian voter, is perceiving that the current government is using the external threat of ISIS and ISIL to shape the political debate in this country, not coincidentally because we have an election coming up.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025341\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I do not think there is a real consideration, as my friend suggested, of alternatives to deal with the real humanitarian issues facing people in Syria and Iraq.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4025335\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en bref, la r\u00e9ponse est non. Je ne crois pas que le gouvernement envisage s\u00e9rieusement d'autres options.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025336\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais citer un r\u00e9sidant de ma circonscription, qui m'a \u00e9crit et qui a r\u00e9pondu directement \u00e0 cette question. Voici ce qu'il dit:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4025337\" data-originallang=\"en\">La propagande \u00e9lectorale \u00ab conservatrice \u00bb est en train de se pr\u00e9ciser, et la strat\u00e9gie du premier ministre semble consister \u00e0 d\u00e9laisser l'\u00e9conomie pour mettre l'accent sur le terrorisme. Le premier ministre Harper aurait d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que \u00ab le terrorisme djihadiste est l\u2019un des ennemis les plus dangereux que notre monde ait jamais confront\u00e9s \u00bb et qu'\u00ab un grand fl\u00e9au enveloppe notre monde \u00bb. Cette rh\u00e9torique alarmante vous est-elle famili\u00e8re? Avons-nous oubli\u00e9 le discours sur l'\u00ab axe du mal \u00bb prononc\u00e9 par le pr\u00e9sident Bush il y a plus de 10 ans?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025338\" data-originallang=\"en\"> De nouveau, le gouvernement fa\u00e7onne l'information et ses interventions dans le but de faire accepter ses politiques militaires et ses politiques en mati\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Dans une d\u00e9mocratie, la gestion des perceptions ne peut pas remplacer l'obligation de rendre compte et la transparence du gouvernement. Il serait pr\u00e9f\u00e9rable, pour notre d\u00e9mocratie, de discuter des exp\u00e9riences r\u00e9centes, des objectifs actuels et des options strat\u00e9giques.</p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4025339\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est M. Robin Hanvelt qui m'a envoy\u00e9 ces quelques mots.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025340\" data-originallang=\"en\">En r\u00e9sum\u00e9, il dit que, en tant qu'\u00e9lecteur canadien, il a l'impression que le gouvernement actuel se sert de la menace ext\u00e9rieure que posent l'EIIS et l'EIIL pour fa\u00e7onner le d\u00e9bat politique au pays. \u00c9videmment, les \u00e9lections qui approchent \u00e0 grands pas n'ont rien \u00e0 voir l\u00e0-dedans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4025341\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme le d\u00e9put\u00e9 l'a laiss\u00e9 entendre, je ne crois pas que le gouvernement ait vraiment envisag\u00e9 des solutions de rechange qui permettraient de r\u00e9gler les probl\u00e8mes concrets sur le plan humanitaire qui touchent les populations en Syrie et en Irak.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/3/26/don-davies-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/don-davies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1007/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8629794",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Military Contribution Against ISIL",
        "fr": "La contribution militaire \u00e0 la lutte contre le groupe \u00c9tat islamique"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/3/26/",
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