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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2018-10-23 19:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. David Christopherson",
"fr": "M. David Christopherson"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5593409\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I have experience too. When I was at Queen's Park, we had to hire the sergeant-at-arms. We pulled together one individual from each of the parties and the Speaker chaired the meeting. How is that unfair? How can that not work?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5593410\" data-originallang=\"en\">When I look at the system now and the perfunctory form letters with the one name that appears at the end of the process, if that somehow constitutes our hiring our own officers of Parliament, I do not buy it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5593411\" data-originallang=\"en\">I acknowledged at the beginning that I am not wed to this particular model. I am open to any model, and there are all kinds of different models. The principle is either one way or the other. The current principle is that the government is doing the process. My motion says that is not acceptable anymore. They are our officers. We should control the entire process, and I guarantee that we will have candidates as good if not better than anyone the government chooses.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5593409\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, moi aussi, j'ai de l'exp\u00e9rience. Lorsque j'\u00e9tais \u00e0 Queen's Park, il a fallu embaucher un sergent d'armes. Chacun des partis a envoy\u00e9 un d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 et le Pr\u00e9sident a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 la r\u00e9union. En quoi cette solution est-elle injuste? Pourquoi cela ne pourrait-il pas fonctionner? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5593410\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si je prends le syst\u00e8me actuel avec ses lettres types superficielles sur lesquelles figure un nom \u00e0 la fin du processus, je ne vois pas comment cela peut \u00eatre la fa\u00e7on d'embaucher les agents du Parlement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5593411\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au d\u00e9but, j'ai dit que je ne tenais pas n\u00e9cessairement \u00e0 ce que ce mod\u00e8le soit choisi. Je suis ouvert \u00e0 d'autres mod\u00e8les, et il en existe plusieurs. Le principe est de choisir un seul mod\u00e8le. Pr\u00e9sentement, c'est le gouvernement qui se charge du processus. Ma motion affirme que cela n'est plus acceptable. Ces agents servent tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s devraient donc \u00eatre responsables de l'ensemble du processus; je suis certain que les candidats qui seraient propos\u00e9s seraient aussi bons, voire meilleurs, que tous ceux que le gouvernement pourrait nommer. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/10/23/david-christopherson-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/david-christopherson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1373/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10325770",
"h1": {
"en": "Private Members' Business",
"fr": "Affaires \u00c9manant Des D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Officers of Parliament",
"fr": "Les agents du Parlement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/10/23/",
"related": {
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}
}