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{
    "time": "2017-06-08 20:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)",
        "fr": "La vice-pr\u00e9sidente adjointe (Mme Carol Hughes)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4943522\" data-originallang=\"en\">Before I go to the next speaker, I know people are questioning how questions are being allocated. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4943523\" data-originallang=\"en\">On November 3, 2016, the Deputy Speaker indicated:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4943524\" data-originallang=\"en\"> ...time for questions and comments is often the most valuable time for an exchange between members. In accordance with the procedures and practices, we will do our best to ensure that time is generally afforded to the members of the parties who are not associated with the member who has just spoken but not to the exclusion of that party... </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4943525\" data-originallang=\"en\">Generally in a 10-minute round there is an opportunity for a question to be asked to the same party, unless nobody else is getting up. Because the member was from the Conservative Party, the decision to allow the questions from the other parties to question the member was how it was afforded. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4943526\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Resuming debate. The hon. member for Beauport\u2014C\u00f4te-de-Beaupr\u00e9\u2014\u00cele d'Orl\u00e9ans\u2014Charlevoix.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4943522\" data-originallang=\"en\">Avant que nous poursuivions le d\u00e9bat, je sais que certaines personnes s'interrogent sur la fa\u00e7on dont les questions sont allou\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4943523\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le 3 novembre 2016, le vice-pr\u00e9sident a dit:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4943524\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] la p\u00e9riode des questions et observations est souvent la plus utile pour un \u00e9change entre les d\u00e9put\u00e9s. Conform\u00e9ment aux proc\u00e9dures et aux pratiques, nous ferons de notre mieux pour veiller \u00e0 ce que du temps soit allou\u00e9 de fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s de partis qui ne sont pas associ\u00e9s au d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui vient de prendre la parole, sans que ce soit au d\u00e9triment du parti de ce d\u00e9put\u00e9 [...] </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4943525\" data-originallang=\"en\">En g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, dans le cadre d'une s\u00e9rie de questions et d'observations de 10 minutes, la possibilit\u00e9 de poser une question est accord\u00e9e \u00e0 un d\u00e9put\u00e9 du m\u00eame parti que celui du d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui vient de parler, sauf si personne d'autre ne souhaite prendre la parole. \u00c9tant donn\u00e9 que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e qui a prononc\u00e9 le discours est membre du Parti conservateur, les questions sont allou\u00e9es aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s des autres partis. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4943526\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Nous reprenons le d\u00e9bat. L'honorable d\u00e9put\u00e9e de Beauport\u2014C\u00f4te-de-Beaupr\u00e9\u2014\u00cele d'Orl\u00e9ans\u2014Charlevoix a la parole.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/6/8/the-assistant-deputy-speaker-22/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/carol-hughes/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1071/",
    "procedural": true,
    "source_id": "9602960",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Salaries Act",
        "fr": "La Loi sur les traitements"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/6/8/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2017%2F6%2F8%2F"
    }
}