Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-12-11 17:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Adam Vaughan (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development (Housing and Urban Affairs), Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Adam Vaughan (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre de la Famille, des Enfants et du D\u00e9veloppement social (Logement et Affaires urbaines), Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5185702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member describe this as an omnibus bill. I am curious as to how he comes to the definition. Every measure in the bill relates to one specific ministry. It is not like Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8840194\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-43/\" title=\"An Act respecting a payment to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to support a pan-Canadian artificial intelligence strategy\">C-43</a>, that sort of scattershot legislation across every ministry, things as unrelated as land rights issues connected to ports, the cost of certain taxes going up, as well as a whole series of measures that had nothing to do with it. In fact, they were not even announced in the budget. They were slipped in the back door through what everybody called an omnibus bill.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5185703\" data-originallang=\"en\">When we look up the legal definition and the parliamentary tradition of what gets constituted as an omnibus bill, and the member is free to challenge it to Chair to get it split, the reality is that this bill is completely unified insofar as it reforms the Criminal Code around evidence, sentencing, and obsolete laws that do not need to be on the book. I am sure the member opposite does not worry about crime comics causing a problem in his riding.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5185704\" data-originallang=\"en\">Under what definition does this constitute an omnibus bill when every measure is introduced by a single minister, has to do with the Criminal Code, and is related to the reform and updating of the Criminal Code system, in particular for the protection of individuals who are sexually assaulted? This is good progressive legislation. Further, the committee that passed it did not worry about it being an omnibus bill. In fact, the committee passed it unanimously, and the member's party is supporting it.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5185702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 affirme qu'il s'agit d'un projet de loi omnibus. Je me demande comment il est arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 cette conclusion, car toutes les dispositions rel\u00e8vent d'un seul minist\u00e8re. On ne peut pas en dire autant du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8840194\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-43/\" title=\"An Act respecting a payment to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to support a pan-Canadian artificial intelligence strategy\">C-43</a>, qui touchait tous les minist\u00e8res et traitait de tout un \u00e9ventail de mesures disparates, comme des revendications territoriales li\u00e9es \u00e0 des ports et des hausses de taxes. En fait, le projet de loi C-43 comprenait des mesures qui n'avaient m\u00eame pas \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9es dans le budget. Elles ont \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9es en douce gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ce projet de loi consid\u00e9r\u00e9 par tous comme omnibus. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5185703\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si on se fie \u00e0 la d\u00e9finition l\u00e9gale d'un projet de loi omnibus et \u00e0 la tradition parlementaire qui l'entoure, force est de constater que le projet de loi \u00e0 l'\u00e9tude est tout \u00e0 fait unifi\u00e9, dans la mesure o\u00f9 il traite de la r\u00e9forme du Code criminel en ce qui concerne la preuve, la d\u00e9termination de la peine et des dispositions obsol\u00e8tes qui n'ont plus leur place dans le Code. Je mets le d\u00e9put\u00e9 au d\u00e9fi de demander \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence de scinder le projet de loi. Je doute fort que les histoires illustr\u00e9es de crime causent des probl\u00e8mes dans sa circonscription.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5185704\" data-originallang=\"en\">Compte tenu du fait que le projet de loi \u00e0 l'\u00e9tude renferme des dispositions relevant d'un seul ministre, toutes li\u00e9es au Code criminel et visant \u00e0 r\u00e9former et moderniser le syst\u00e8me judiciaire, notamment pour assurer la protection des victimes d'agressions sexuelles, comment peut-on affirmer qu'il s'agit d'un projet de loi omnibus? Le projet de loi est judicieux et progressiste. Qui plus est, le comit\u00e9 ne l'a pas per\u00e7u comme un projet de loi omnibus et l'a adopt\u00e9 \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9. Donc m\u00eame le parti du d\u00e9put\u00e9 l'appuie.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/12/11/adam-vaughan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/adam-vaughan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4283/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9888190",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Criminal Code",
        "fr": "Le Code criminel"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/12/11/",
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