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{
    "time": "2015-05-26 13:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Marc Garneau",
        "fr": "M. Marc Garneau"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4124004\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we are talking about apples and oranges here. I can tell the member that as president of the Canadian Space Agency, I would never have dared to question the scientific results and publications that my scientists wanted to put forward. They had the intellectual freedom to do so.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4124005\" data-originallang=\"en\">That does not mean that we do not check to make sure there is not proprietary information, privacy information, that there are not certain security implications. We would not have a problem with that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4124006\" data-originallang=\"en\"> However, when somebody wants to publish research that may be critical of the government, which has definitely been the case with the Conservative government, it is going against what should be allowed in this country, which is the freedom to publish scientific research for better or for worse.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4124004\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous comparons des pommes et des oranges. Je peux dire au d\u00e9put\u00e9 qu'en tant que pr\u00e9sident de l'Agence spatiale canadienne, je n'aurais jamais os\u00e9 remettre en question les r\u00e9sultats scientifiques et les publications que mes chercheurs voulaient pr\u00e9senter. Ils avaient la libert\u00e9 intellectuelle de les publier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4124005\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela ne veut pas dire qu'aucune v\u00e9rification n'est faite pour s'assurer que les renseignements ne sont ni exclusifs ni personnels, qu'il n'y a pas de r\u00e9percussions sur le plan de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Cela ne nous poserait aucun probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4124006\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, lorsque quelqu'un veut publier des r\u00e9sultats de recherche qui pourraient \u00eatre critiques \u00e0 l'endroit du gouvernement, ce qui s'est certainement d\u00e9j\u00e0 produit dans le cas du gouvernement conservateur, cela va \u00e0 l'encontre de ce qui devrait \u00eatre permis au pays, \u00e0 savoir le droit de publier des travaux de recherche, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/5/26/marc-garneau-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marc-garneau/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1046/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8711602",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Federal Science Research",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 La recherche scientifique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/5/26/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F5%2F26%2F"
    }
}