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{
    "time": "2017-04-11 18:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pierre-Luc Dusseault",
        "fr": "M. Pierre-Luc Dusseault"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4833200\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question is extremely relevant, but he forgot to mention that, in order to be able to examine the specific question of privilege raised by our colleagues, the committee must be instructed by the House to do so.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4833201\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The committees are free to examine any issue they want. In this case, the committee can examine the issue of access to the parliamentary precinct in general, but to examine the specific question of privilege raised by my two colleagues with regard to what happened to them and set the record straight, the committee must be instructed by the House of Commons to do so. It cannot undertake a study of its own volition when it comes to a question of privilege.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4833200\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la question de mon coll\u00e8gue est extr\u00eamement pertinente, mais il a oubli\u00e9 de mentionner que, pour \u00eatre en mesure d'\u00e9tudier pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment la question de privil\u00e8ge soulev\u00e9e par nos coll\u00e8gues, le comit\u00e9 doit en recevoir l'instruction de la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4833201\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les comit\u00e9s sont libres d'\u00e9tudier toutes les questions qu'ils veulent. Dans ce cas-ci, le comit\u00e9 peut \u00e9tudier la question de l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la Cit\u00e9 parlementaire de fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, mais pour \u00eatre saisi de la question pr\u00e9cise soulev\u00e9e par mes deux coll\u00e8gues relativement \u00e0 ce qui leur est arriv\u00e9 et afin de faire la part des choses, il doit en recevoir l'instruction de la Chambre des communes. Il ne peut le faire de son propre chef lorsqu'il s'agit d'une telle question de privil\u00e8ge.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/4/11/pierre-luc-dusseault-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-luc-dusseault/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4097/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9480252",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Privilege",
        "fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs",
        "fr": "Le renvoi au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/4/11/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2017%2F4%2F11%2F"
    }
}