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{
"time": "2018-11-06 15:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5636227\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order, which relates to a unanimous consent motion passed in the House of Commons on May 24, and it relates to the unanimous consent given on the installation of a plaque commemorating a former MP from the Great War, Sam Sharpe. The unanimous consent motion was seconded by my colleague on the other side, the MP for <a data-HoCid=\"214220\" href=\"/politicians/jennifer-oconnell/\" title=\"Jennifer O'Connell\">Pickering\u2014Uxbridge</a>, and there was much help from the member for <a data-HoCid=\"213903\" href=\"/politicians/john-mckay/\" title=\"John McKay\">Scarborough\u2014Guildwood</a> as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636228\" data-originallang=\"en\">The installation is to be held before the 100th year anniversary of the armistice that ended the war. We have been informed in recent days that it is the intention of the <a data-HoCid=\"233812\" href=\"/politicians/seamus-oregan/\" title=\"Seamus O'Regan\">Minister of Veterans Affairs</a> not to install the plaque, as per the unanimous consent of the House, but to display the maquette. The maquette, the model for the commemorative plaque, was displayed in 2015. The intention of the House on May 24 was to install the plaque here in Centre Block. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636229\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would quote from the unanimous consent motion passed on May 24 in this place:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5636230\" data-originallang=\"en\"> one day before the 100th anniversary of the tragic death of MP Sam Sharpe, [this House] call for the commemorative bronze plaque of Samuel Simpson Sharp, sculpted by Canadian artist Tyler Briley, to be installed in the Centre Block ahead of the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5636231\" data-originallang=\"en\">It went on to give discretion to the <a data-HoCid=\"233812\" href=\"/politicians/seamus-oregan/\" title=\"Seamus O'Regan\">Minister of Veterans Affairs</a>, during the period of closure of Centre Block for renovations, to allow the plaque to be removed from its installation and loaned to the Operational Stress Injury Clinic at the Royal Ottawa Hospital. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636232\" data-originallang=\"en\">All sides agreed to a very detailed and very much discussed unanimous consent motion, and it is my sincere hope, in the spirit of bipartisanship in relation to reducing the stigma associated with mental injuries from service, that before 100 years passes from the end of the Great War, we can rectify an omission by the House of Commons almost a century ago, when the iconic statue of George Baker was provided in the lobby here and no mention was made of sitting member of Parliament Sam Sharpe. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636233\" data-originallang=\"en\">That unanimous consent motion was passed on the eve of the 100th anniversary of his death by suicide in the year the Legion has decided to make the Silver Cross Mother the mother of Private Welch, who was a casualty, through a similar means, after the Afghanistan war. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636234\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us show a spirit of bipartisan co-operation to meet the goal and the clear, express intention of the House and install the plaque tomorrow or before November 11. That is really our duty. That was the will of the House. The fact that the intention of the minister is now to deviate from that express will brings my point of order for your clarification.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5636227\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'invoque le R\u00e8glement au sujet d'une motion demandant un consentement unanime qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e \u00e0 la Chambre des communes le 24 mai. Ce consentement unanime a \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9 pour l'installation d'une plaque comm\u00e9morant un ancien d\u00e9put\u00e9 de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale, Sam Sharpe. La motion demandant un consentement unanime a \u00e9t\u00e9 appuy\u00e9e par ma coll\u00e8gue d'en face, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"214220\" href=\"/politicians/jennifer-oconnell/\" title=\"Jennifer O'Connell\">Pickering\u2014Uxbridge</a>, et le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"213903\" href=\"/politicians/john-mckay/\" title=\"John McKay\">Scarborough\u2014Guildwood</a> a aussi beaucoup aid\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636228\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'installation de la plaque doit avoir lieu avant le 100<sup>e</sup> anniversaire de l'armistice qui a mis fin \u00e0 la guerre. R\u00e9cemment, nous avons appris que le <a data-HoCid=\"233812\" href=\"/politicians/seamus-oregan/\" title=\"Seamus O'Regan\">ministre des Anciens Combattants</a> n'a pas l'intention d'installer la plaque, comme l'a consenti \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9 la Chambre: il souhaite plut\u00f4t exposer la maquette. La maquette, qui est le mod\u00e8le de la plaque comm\u00e9morative, a \u00e9t\u00e9 expos\u00e9e en 2015. Le 24 mai, la Chambre a manifest\u00e9 son intention d'installer la plaque ici, dans l'\u00e9difice du Centre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais citer la motion demandant un consentement unanime qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e dans cette enceinte le 24 mai:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5636230\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] [Que la Chambre, \u00e0 la] veille du 100<sup>e</sup> anniversaire de la mort tragique de M. Sharpe, demande qu\u2019une plaque comm\u00e9morative en bronze en l\u2019honneur de Samuel Simpson Sharpe, sculpt\u00e9e par l\u2019artiste canadien Tyler Briley, soit pos\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9difice du Centre, avant le 100<sup>e</sup> anniversaire de l\u2019Armistice qui a mis fin \u00e0 la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale [...] </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5636231\" data-originallang=\"en\">La motion pr\u00e9voyait aussi que le <a data-HoCid=\"233812\" href=\"/politicians/seamus-oregan/\" title=\"Seamus O'Regan\">ministre des Anciens Combattants</a> puisse permettre, \u00e0 sa discr\u00e9tion, que, durant la fermeture de l'\u00e9difice du Centre \u00e0 des fins de r\u00e9novation, la plaque comm\u00e9morative soit pr\u00eat\u00e9e \u00e0 la Clinique pour traumatismes li\u00e9s au stress op\u00e9rationnel de l'H\u00f4pital Royal Ottawa.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636232\" data-originallang=\"en\">Apr\u00e8s un long d\u00e9bat, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s avaient alors adopt\u00e9 \u00e0 l'unanimit\u00e9 cette motion tr\u00e8s d\u00e9taill\u00e9e. J'esp\u00e8re sinc\u00e8rement que la Chambre fera preuve d'un esprit de collaboration bipartisane visant \u00e0 r\u00e9duire les pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s associ\u00e9s aux blessures psychologiques subies pendant le service militaire. J'esp\u00e8re \u00e9galement que, avant le 100<sup>e</sup> anniversaire de la fin de la Grande Guerre, nous pourrons corriger une omission commise par la Chambre des communes il y a pr\u00e8s d'un si\u00e8cle, lorsque la statue l\u00e9gendaire de George Baker a \u00e9t\u00e9 install\u00e9e dans l'antichambre sans que soit mentionn\u00e9e la contribution de Sam Sharpe, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9put\u00e9 f\u00e9d\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636233\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette motion demandant le consentement unanime a \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e la veille du 100<sup>e</sup> anniversaire du suicide de Sam Sharpe, pendant l'ann\u00e9e o\u00f9 la L\u00e9gion a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de d\u00e9cerner le titre de M\u00e8re d\u00e9cor\u00e9e de la Croix d'argent \u00e0 la m\u00e8re du soldat Welch, qui est mort dans des circonstances semblables apr\u00e8s la guerre en Afghanistan.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5636234\" data-originallang=\"en\">Faisons preuve d'un esprit de collaboration bipartisane afin d'atteindre l'objectif de la Chambre et de respecter l'intention qu'elle avait clairement exprim\u00e9e en faisant en sorte que la plaque soit install\u00e9e demain ou avant le 11 novembre. C'est vraiment notre devoir. C'\u00e9tait la volont\u00e9 de la Chambre. J'invoque le R\u00e8glement pour obtenir des \u00e9claircissements de la pr\u00e9sidence, car le ministre a maintenant l'intention de ne pas respecter la volont\u00e9 manifeste de la Chambre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/11/6/erin-otoole-2/",
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"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Points of Order",
"fr": "Recours au R\u00e8glement"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Motion Regarding Commemorative Plaque for Sam Sharpe",
"fr": "La motion concernant la plaque comm\u00e9morative pour Sam Sharpe"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/11/6/",
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