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{
"time": "2017-10-26 11:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood\u2014Transcona, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood\u2014Transcona, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5080762\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the hon. opposition House leader for explaining to the government the various tools at its disposal to build a cabinet. Part of the genesis of Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8374844\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-24/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Salaries Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act\">C-24</a> was that the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> and the people around him did not understand all the different tools they had at their disposal to build a cabinet, how they work, and the fact that there are different positions. That is why when the bill was first tabled, we thought it might have something to do with gender equity. That was the context out of which the bill came, as the member rightly explained. The <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> had screwed up, essentially, in terms of his commitment to gender parity at the cabinet table. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5080763\" data-originallang=\"en\">If it is not about that, then the struggle is to define the relevant sense of \u201cequal\u201d. In our study of the bill, we have not been able to find any relevant sense that this really makes ministers more equal in a way they are not already. I am wondering if the member's study of the bill has led her to find what that relevant sense of \u201cequal\u201d might be.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5080762\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier la leader de l'opposition \u00e0 la Chambre d'avoir expliqu\u00e9 au gouvernement quels sont les outils \u00e0 sa disposition pour constituer un Cabinet. Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8374844\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-24/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Salaries Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act\">C-24</a> tire son origine en partie du fait que le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> et son entourage ne savaient pas quels \u00e9taient les divers outils dont ils disposaient pour former un Cabinet et comment ces outils fonctionnaient. Ils ne savaient pas qu'il y avait diff\u00e9rents postes possibles. C'est pour cette raison que, au d\u00e9part, quand le projet de loi a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9pos\u00e9, nous avons pens\u00e9 que cela avait peut-\u00eatre quelque chose \u00e0 voir avec la parit\u00e9 hommes-femmes. C'est dans ce contexte que le projet de loi a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9, comme l'a expliqu\u00e9 avec raison la d\u00e9put\u00e9e. Essentiellement, le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a>, qui s'\u00e9tait engag\u00e9 \u00e0 assurer la parit\u00e9 hommes-femmes au Cabinet, avait rat\u00e9 son coup.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5080763\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si ce n'est pas de cela qu'il s'agit, nous nous devons alors de d\u00e9terminer quel est le sens pertinent du mot \u00ab \u00e9gal \u00bb. Notre \u00e9tude du projet de loi ne nous a pas permis de trouver un sens \u00e0 ce mot qui expliquerait en quoi les ministres deviendraient plus \u00e9gaux qu'ils ne le sont d\u00e9j\u00e0. Je me demande si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e, dans le cadre de son \u00e9tude du projet de loi, est arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 trouver le sens du terme \u00ab \u00e9gal \u00bb dans ce contexte. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/10/26/daniel-blaikie-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/daniel-blaikie/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4407/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9736216",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Salaries Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur les traitements"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Speaker's Ruling",
"fr": "D\u00e9cision de la pr\u00e9sidence"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/10/26/",
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}
}