{"time": "2016-10-06 10:40:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Arnold Chan (Scarborough\u2014Agincourt, Lib.)", "fr": "M. Arnold Chan (Scarborough\u2014Agincourt, Lib.)"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4511662\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I simply want to encourage all of my colleagues to be less partisan today. This is the one day that we collectively, as colleagues, have an opportunity to ask ourselves whether the Standing Orders, the rules that conduct the operation of the House of Commons and committees, are appropriate or whether we need to make changes. This is our opportunity, as members of Parliament, individually and collectively, to put on the table the important issues of the day. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4511663\" data-originallang=\"en\">My colleague raised many important issues. I am going to get to one issue, and that is with respect to the Speaker's powers and the enforcement of the rules of debate. Would my friend be amenable to perhaps expanding those powers beyond simply, under the current system, naming a member if he or she is out of order?</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4511662\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'invite simplement mes coll\u00e8gues \u00e0 laisser de c\u00f4t\u00e9 la partisanerie aujourd'hui. Cette journ\u00e9e est la seule occasion qui nous est offerte de nous demander collectivement si le R\u00e8glement, c'est-\u00e0-dire les r\u00e8gles qui r\u00e9gissent le fonctionnement de la Chambre de communes et des comit\u00e9s, convient ou s'il faut y apporter des changements. Nous, d\u00e9put\u00e9s, avons ainsi l'occasion, individuellement et collectivement, de soulever des questions cruciales.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4511663\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon coll\u00e8gue a abord\u00e9 plusieurs points importants. Pour ma part, j'aimerais parler d'une chose: les pouvoirs de la pr\u00e9sidence et l'application des r\u00e8gles de proc\u00e9dure. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 serait-il pr\u00eat \u00e0 \u00e9largir les pouvoirs de la pr\u00e9sidence au-del\u00e0 de la possibilit\u00e9 de simplement rappeler nomm\u00e9ment un d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 l'ordre?</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2016/10/6/arnold-chan-1/", "politician_url": "/politicians/arnold-chan/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4170/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "9145976", "h1": {"en": "Orders Of The Day", "fr": "Ordre Du Jour"}, "h2": {"en": "Standing Orders and Procedure", "fr": "Le R\u00e8glement et la proc\u00e9dure"}, "document_url": "/debates/2016/10/6/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F10%2F6%2F"}}