Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-09-25 13:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Joyce Murray (Vancouver Quadra, Lib.)",
        "fr": "Mme Joyce Murray (Vancouver Quadra, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5008144\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to remind viewers of this debate today and readers of <em>Hansard</em> that when they are watching or reading about the grandstanding and righteous indignation of Conservative members that it was the Conservative Party that put forward a promise in the 2006 election to reform the Access to Information Act and the Conservative Party did nothing to reform the act. With its culture of secrecy, that party fully exploited the weaknesses in the act.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5008145\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank goodness we have a <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> who is committed to access to information. We are reforming the act, including giving order-making powers to the commissioner of whom the member for <a data-HoCid=\"213992\" href=\"/politicians/erin-otoole/\" title=\"Erin O'Toole\">Durham</a> has been so congratulatory.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5008146\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question for the member is on his colleague's comments on frivolous and vexatious requests. He essentially said that we should not address that in this reform even though the commissioner and the committee recommended it, and eight provinces and three territorial governments have some variation of it. In the absence of frivolous and vexatious exclusions, the system can get completely bogged down with individuals, for example, ATIPing their ex spouses daily activities and emails.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5008147\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would the member agree that by removing those types of applications for information, the system could respond much better to the real access to information requests of ordinary Canadians?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5008144\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je voudrais rappeler aux personnes qui regardent le d\u00e9bat d'aujourd'hui et aux lecteurs du hansard que nous assistons \u00e0 une d\u00e9monstration de fausse indignation et de d\u00e9magogie de la part des d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs et que c'est le Parti conservateur qui, lors de la campagne \u00e9lectorale de 2006, a promis de modifier la Loi sur l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'information, mais qu'il ne l'a pas fait. Guid\u00e9 par sa culture du secret, ce parti a exploit\u00e9 pleinement les faiblesses de la loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5008145\" data-originallang=\"en\">Heureusement, le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> actuel compte bien respecter ses engagements en ce qui a trait \u00e0 l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'information. Nous avons entrepris de modifier la loi, y compris en accordant le pouvoir de prendre des ordonnances \u00e0 la commissaire \u00e0 l'information, dont le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"213992\" href=\"/politicians/erin-otoole/\" title=\"Erin O'Toole\">Durham</a> a beaucoup fait l'\u00e9loge.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5008146\" data-originallang=\"en\">La question que j'adresse au d\u00e9put\u00e9 porte sur les observations de son coll\u00e8gue concernant les demandes futiles et vexatoires. Il a dit essentiellement que nous ne devrions pas tenter de r\u00e9soudre ce probl\u00e8me dans le projet de loi actuel, m\u00eame si la commissaire et le comit\u00e9 nous recommandent de le faire, et m\u00eame si huit provinces et trois territoires ont des dispositions analogues contre les demandes de ce genre. Si la loi ne pr\u00e9voit pas l'exclusion des demandes frivoles et vexatoires, le syst\u00e8me peut \u00eatre compl\u00e8tement paralys\u00e9 par les demandes de personnes qui, par exemple, cherchent \u00e0 se renseigner sur les activit\u00e9s et les courriels de leur ex-conjoint en invoquant la Loi sur l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'information.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5008147\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 convient-il qu'en excluant les demandes d'information de ce genre, le syst\u00e8me serait capable de beaucoup mieux r\u00e9pondre aux vraies demandes d'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'information pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es par des Canadiens ordinaires?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/9/25/joyce-murray-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/joyce-murray/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/829/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9662457",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Access to Information Act",
        "fr": "La Loi sur l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019information"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/9/25/",
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    }
}