Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-05-12 11:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jack Harris",
        "fr": "M. Jack Harris"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4096489\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member hit on an essential point. The separation of powers is extremely important in our Constitution, and frankly, to our freedom. Our freedom as a nation depends on the separation of powers between the executive branch and the parliamentary branch. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4096490\" data-originallang=\"en\">We do not have that as stringently as they do, for example, in a republican system like in United States, where they have the executive in the White House, with the cabinet chosen by him and ratified by parliament, and then they have Congress and the Supreme Court. There is a structural separation of powers. We have a different system, in some ways better, because members of the executive sit over here in the front row or second row, or wherever, on the other side, and they are responsible and accountable to Parliament directly. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4096491\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have a different system, but because there is this intimacy, so to speak, between the executive and the legislative branch, it is all the more important to make sure that there are bright black lines between the executive authority and the House of Commons, or the legislative branch. We should, in this case, examine that to see where those bright black lines need to be.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4096489\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 vient de mettre le doigt sur un point essentiel. La s\u00e9paration des pouvoirs est un attribut extr\u00eamement important de notre Constitution et, je dirais m\u00eame, de notre libert\u00e9. Autrement dit, notre libert\u00e9 en tant que nation d\u00e9pend de la s\u00e9paration des pouvoirs entre l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif et le parlementaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4096490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce n\u2019est pas aussi rigoureux que, par exemple, dans un r\u00e9gime r\u00e9publicain comme celui des \u00c9tats-Unis, o\u00f9 le pouvoir ex\u00e9cutif appartient au pr\u00e9sident, qui r\u00e9side \u00e0 la Maison Blanche et qui nomme les membres de son Cabinet, m\u00eame si ces derniers sont ratifi\u00e9s par le Parlement. Ils ont ensuite le Congr\u00e8s et la Cour supr\u00eame. Chez eux, la s\u00e9paration des pouvoirs est structurelle. Nous, nous avons un syst\u00e8me diff\u00e9rent et meilleur \u00e0 certains \u00e9gards, car les membres de l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif si\u00e8gent en face de nous \u00e0 la Chambre, au premier ou au deuxi\u00e8me rang, ou ailleurs, mais ils sont responsables et doivent rendre des comptes directement au Parlement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4096491\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons donc un syst\u00e8me diff\u00e9rent, mais c\u2019est justement \u00e0 cause de cette proximit\u00e9, si l\u2019on peut dire, entre l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif et le l\u00e9gislatif qu\u2019il est encore plus important de s\u2019assurer que la ligne de d\u00e9marcation est tr\u00e8s claire entre l\u2019ex\u00e9cutif et la Chambre des communes, c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire le l\u00e9gislatif. Nous devrions nous pencher sur la question, pour voir o\u00f9 devrait se situer cette ligne de d\u00e9marcation. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/5/12/jack-harris-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jack-harris/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1063/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8695508",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Privilege",
        "fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Physical Obstruction\u2014Speaker's Ruling",
        "fr": "L'obstruction par des moyens physiques \u2014 D\u00e9cision de la pr\u00e9sidence"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/5/12/",
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}