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{
"time": "2016-06-08 19:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Cooper",
"fr": "M. Michael Cooper"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4410079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in response to the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, the issue is not whether the <a data-HoCid=\"214903\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">Minister of Justice</a> contravened the Conflict of Interest Act. No one is suggesting that. The fact is, the Minister of Justice is bound by a higher standard than the Conflict of Interest Act. The fact that the minister is obeying the law, not breaking it, should be a given for a minister of justice.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4410080\" data-originallang=\"en\">The issue is the fact that the minister has contravened, in black and white terms, the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>'s own ethics code. The Prime Minister's ethics code in black and white terms expressly states that a minister shall not solicit funds from department stakeholders or lobbyists. The minister clearly did that when she attended the pay-to-play fundraiser at Torys LLP, and therefore, compromised her independence and breached the Prime Minister's ethics code. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4410081\" data-originallang=\"en\">With respect to judges, with all due respect to the parliamentary secretary, I found it alarming, but also telling, that he would say that the minister has just started a process. It is seven months in. It is time for the <a data-HoCid=\"214903\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">Minister of Justice</a> to stop talking and start appointing. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4410079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je signale au secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre qu'il ne s'agit pas ici de savoir si la <a data-HoCid=\"214903\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">ministre de la Justice</a> a contrevenu \u00e0 la Loi sur les conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats. Personne ici ne pr\u00e9tend une telle chose. Il n'en demeure pas moins que la ministre de la Justice devrait s'astreindre \u00e0 des normes plus \u00e9lev\u00e9es que la Loi sur les conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats. Personne ne devrait m\u00eame avoir \u00e0 se demander si la ministre de la Justice ob\u00e9it \u00e0 la loi au lieu de l'enfreindre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4410080\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela \u00e9tant dit, la ministre est carr\u00e9ment all\u00e9e \u00e0 l'encontre du code d'\u00e9thique \u00e9tabli par le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> lui-m\u00eame. Il est \u00e9crit noir sur blanc dans ce code que les ministres doivent \u00e9viter de solliciter de l'argent aupr\u00e8s des intervenants minist\u00e9riels et des lobbyistes, mais c'est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment ce que la ministre a fait en assistant \u00e0 l'activit\u00e9 de financement payante organis\u00e9e par la firme Torys. Elle a donc compromis son ind\u00e9pendance et enfreint le code d'\u00e9thique \u00e9tabli par le premier ministre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4410081\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est des juges, avec tout le respect que je dois au secr\u00e9taire parlementaire, je trouve alarmant \u2014 mais r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur \u2014 qu'il affirme que la ministre vienne de lancer un processus. Elle est l\u00e0 depuis sept mois. Il serait peut-\u00eatre temps que la <a data-HoCid=\"214903\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">ministre de la Justice</a> arr\u00eate de parler et qu'elle fasse des nominations.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/6/8/michael-cooper-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michael-cooper/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4382/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8980153",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/6/8/",
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}