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{
"time": "2015-05-11 14:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014Baie James, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4094734\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in trying to deflect for the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a>, the member has been making a mockery out of question period. No wonder. This is a government that is under siege. The appointment of senators is the sole responsibility of the Prime Minister, yet they cannot seem to give a single credible response. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4094735\" data-originallang=\"en\">We will try this. What is the criteria the Prime Minister uses to ensure that the people he appoints to the Senate are actually eligible to sit there? Would the parliamentary secretary answer or explain to Canadians why he is so desperate to stonewall for his Prime Minister?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4094734\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 force de donner des r\u00e9ponses \u00e9vasives au nom du <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a>, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 tourne en ridicule la p\u00e9riode des questions. Ce n'est gu\u00e8re \u00e9tonnant de la part d'un gouvernement assi\u00e9g\u00e9. La nomination des s\u00e9nateurs est sous l'enti\u00e8re responsabilit\u00e9 du premier ministre. Or les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'en face semblent incapables de fournir une seule r\u00e9ponse cr\u00e9dible.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4094735\" data-originallang=\"en\">Essayons ceci. Sur quels crit\u00e8res le premier ministre se fonde-t-il pour s'assurer que les gens qu'il nomme au S\u00e9nat ont le droit d'y si\u00e9ger? Le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire voudrait-il r\u00e9pondre ou expliquer aux Canadiens pourquoi il tente aussi d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment d'\u00e9viter les questions au nom du premier ministre?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/5/11/charlie-angus-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8691455",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Ethics",
"fr": "L'\u00e9thique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/5/11/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F5%2F11%2F"
}
}