This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2016-12-08 12:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4698016\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am very glad there is co-operation in the House to bring this motion forward to use the questions from the all-party parliamentary committee with the help of very objective parliamentary staff. Their very even questions feel like a great improvement on the government's online survey about democratic reform, compared to what the <a data-HoCid=\"214316\" href=\"/politicians/maryam-monsef/\" title=\"Maryam Monsef\">Minister of Democratic Institutions</a> is using on the government's online consultation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4698017\" data-originallang=\"en\">Based on the member's previous experience with public opinion polling, I would be interested in his perspective on the kinds of questions the government is now using. For example, one question is:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4698018\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ballots should be as simple as possible so that everybody understands how to vote OR ballots should allow everybody to express their preferences in detail? To me, the question assumes that it is impossible to have both, and I cannot imagine anybody saying they want an incomprehensible ballot. This is an example of very misleading and biased questions, to which we are hearing people across the country react badly.</p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4698019\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to know if the member agrees that these are bad questions and that we would be better to rely on the more neutral ones that have been tested by the committee.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4698016\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis tr\u00e8s heureuse que la Chambre coop\u00e8re pour pr\u00e9senter la motion afin d'utiliser les questions formul\u00e9es par le comit\u00e9 parlementaire form\u00e9 de repr\u00e9sentants de tous les partis, avec l'aide du personnel parlementaire, qui est tr\u00e8s objectif. Ces questions tr\u00e8s impartiales semblent une nette am\u00e9lioration par rapport au sondage en ligne du gouvernement au sujet de la r\u00e9forme d\u00e9mocratique, c'est-\u00e0-dire comparativement aux questions que la <a data-HoCid=\"214316\" href=\"/politicians/maryam-monsef/\" title=\"Maryam Monsef\">ministre des Institutions d\u00e9mocratiques</a> emploie dans la consultation en ligne du gouvernement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4698017\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais savoir ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9, d'apr\u00e8s son exp\u00e9rience en mati\u00e8re de sondage d'opinion publique, pense du genre de questions que le gouvernement emploie en ce moment. Par exemple, l'une des questions dit:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4698018\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Les bulletins de vote devraient \u00eatre aussi simples que possible pour que tout le monde comprenne facilement comment voter OU les bulletins de vote devraient permettre \u00e0 tous les \u00e9lecteurs d'exprimer leurs pr\u00e9f\u00e9rences en d\u00e9tail? \u00c0 mon sens, la question pr\u00e9sume qu'il est impossible d'avoir les deux. Or, je ne peux imaginer qu'une personne dise vouloir un bulletin de vote incompr\u00e9hensible. Ceci est un exemple de question tr\u00e8s biais\u00e9e qui induit en erreur et qui suscite une r\u00e9action n\u00e9gative chez les Canadiens partout au pays.</p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4698019\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais savoir si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 est d'accord avec moi pour dire que ces questions sont mauvaises et qu'il vaudrait mieux se fier aux questions plus neutres qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mises \u00e0 l'essai par le comit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/12/8/sheila-malcolmson-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sheila-malcolmson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4256/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9308749",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Electoral Reform",
"fr": "R\u00e9forme \u00e9lectorale"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/12/8/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F12%2F8%2F"
}
}