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{
"time": "2016-02-04 10:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby South, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby-Sud, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"4190698\"> moved for leave to introduce Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8076535\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-217/\" title=\"An Act respecting the position and office of the Parliamentary Science Officer and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-217, An Act respecting the position and office of the Parliamentary Science Officer and to make consequential amendments to other Acts</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190699\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to reintroduce my private member's bill to establish Canada's first parliamentary science officer. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190700\" data-originallang=\"en\">My bill aims to create an independent science watchdog for Parliament with a mandate to provide MPs with sound information and expert advice on scientific issues facing our country. This office would help to ensure scientific research has a stronger voice in the policy-making process and that decisions made in Ottawa are based on the best available evidence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190701\" data-originallang=\"en\">A parliamentary science officer would be a major improvement compared to the previous office of the national science advisor, which advised only the prime minister and lacked institutional independence before being eliminated in 2008.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada needs a new science advisor that is independent of the government and reports directly to Parliament. Its mandate needs to be comprehensive and protected by law, and that is why I am putting forward this bill today. It complements a motion I put forward on ethics in terms of research.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190703\" data-originallang=\"en\">I hope the bill will receive support from all members of the House.</p>\n<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"2\"> (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) </p>",
"fr": "<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"4190698\"> demande \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8076535\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-217/\" title=\"An Act respecting the position and office of the Parliamentary Science Officer and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-217, Loi concernant le poste de directeur parlementaire des sciences et son bureau et apportant des modifications corr\u00e9latives \u00e0 d\u2019autres lois</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190699\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u2014 Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'interviens aujourd'hui pour pr\u00e9senter de nouveau mon projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire qui vise \u00e0 cr\u00e9er le poste de directeur parlementaire des sciences du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190700\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon projet de loi vise \u00e0 constituer un bureau ind\u00e9pendant de surveillance en mati\u00e8re scientifique pour le Parlement. Son mandat consisterait \u00e0 fournir aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s des renseignements fiables et des conseils d'expert sur les enjeux scientifiques auxquels notre pays est confront\u00e9. Ce bureau contribuerait \u00e0 faire en sorte que la recherche scientifique exerce une plus grande influence dans le processus d'\u00e9laboration des politiques et que les d\u00e9cisions prises \u00e0 Ottawa soient fond\u00e9es sur les meilleures donn\u00e9es disponibles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190701\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un poste de directeur parlementaire des sciences constituerait un progr\u00e8s consid\u00e9rable par rapport \u00e0 l'ancien Bureau du conseiller national des sciences, qui, avant d'\u00eatre \u00e9limin\u00e9 en 2008, ne conseillait que le premier ministre et n'avait pas l'ind\u00e9pendance institutionnelle voulue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Canada a besoin d'un nouveau conseiller des sciences qui est ind\u00e9pendant du gouvernement et qui rel\u00e8ve directement du Parlement. Son mandat doit \u00eatre vaste et prot\u00e9g\u00e9 en vertu de la loi. C'est pourquoi je pr\u00e9sente aujourd'hui ce projet de loi. Il servira de compl\u00e9ment \u00e0 une motion que j'ai pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e sur l'\u00e9thique en mati\u00e8re de recherche.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4190703\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'esp\u00e8re que le projet de loi recevra l'appui de tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s.</p>\n<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"2\">(Les motions sont r\u00e9put\u00e9es adopt\u00e9es, le projet de loi est lu pour la premi\u00e8re fois et imprim\u00e9.)</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/2/4/kennedy-stewart-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kennedy-stewart/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4188/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8780356",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Parliamentary Science Officer Act",
"fr": "Loi sur le directeur parlementaire des sciences"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/2/4/",
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}