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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": "2016-02-18 18:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Yvonne Jones",
"fr": "Mme Yvonne Jones"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4203801\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the member opposite is obviously trying to make this look like a process whereby band chiefs and indigenous governments in this country are accountable to no one, and that is wrong. They are accountable, first, to the Government of Canada for the money they are afforded and, second, to their own membership. They do report to their membership. It is available. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4203802\" data-originallang=\"en\">I know the members opposite may have trouble understanding this, but what we are doing is working with first nations, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit governments in this country to be able to develop transparency and accountability regulations collaboratively together, with mutual understanding, so that the regulations are fair to all partners involved, and do not require indigenous Canadians to go to a reporting system that is above and beyond what any other Canadian is expected to do.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4203803\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member opposite knows that the act that was in place had measures that certainly asked them to do just that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4203801\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face essaie manifestement de pr\u00e9senter l'affaire comme si les chefs de bande et les gouvernements autochtones du pays n'avaient de comptes \u00e0 rendre \u00e0 personne, alors que c'est faux. Ils ont des comptes \u00e0 rendre premi\u00e8rement au gouvernement du Canada pour l'argent qui leur est accord\u00e9. Deuxi\u00e8mement, ils ont des comptes \u00e0 rendre aux membres de leur bande. Ils doivent rendre des comptes \u00e0 leurs membres. L'information est disponible.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4203802\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je sais que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'en face ont de la difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 le comprendre, mais nous sommes en train de collaborer avec les gouvernements des Premi\u00e8res Nations, des M\u00e9tis et des Inuits du pays pour d\u00e9finir avec eux des r\u00e8gles de transparence et de reddition de comptes. Nous voulons nous entendre avec eux, dans un esprit de collaboration, afin que les r\u00e8gles soient \u00e9quitables pour tous les partenaires concern\u00e9s. Et nous ne souhaitons pas obliger les Autochtones du Canada \u00e0 se plier \u00e0 un syst\u00e8me de d\u00e9clarations plus strict que celui auquel sont soumis les autres Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4203803\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face sait que la loi adopt\u00e9e comportait justement de telles exigences trop strictes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/2/18/yvonne-jones-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/yvonne-jones/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4156/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8798916",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Indigenous Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/2/18/",
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}