Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-05-22 10:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5428938\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in the 2015 election, I was out, as all my colleagues were on election day, getting voters to the polls. It was 6:30 p.m. in Vancouver, and the polls still had another half hour to go. I was standing at the doorstep of a house and through the living room window, I could see the television. Peter Mansbridge was on <em>The National</em>, and he had called a majority Liberal government. That broadcast to voters in British Columbia, while the polls were still open, the results of the election. The reason that was legal was because the previous Harper government, in 2012, eliminated a law that was put in place in 1938, which had governed every election since then. The law prohibited the early broadcast of election results so people would not know the results of the election prior to the polls closing. By the way, that prohibition was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada as being constitutional. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5428939\" data-originallang=\"en\">All of us in the House know that it completely skews the results for people in one part of the country to know the results of the election while the polls are still open. This was backed up by empirical evidence on the ground where people told me and other candidates that when they turned over the ballot boxes, they could see a clear difference in the way people voted within the last half hour of the balloting.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5428940\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Why has my hon. colleague's government not restore the ban on broadcasting the election results when it clearly has a corrosive and biassing impact on elections and is so bias against voters in British Columbia and the west?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5428938\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, lors des \u00e9lections de 2015, je m'affairais, \u00e0 l'instar de tous mes coll\u00e8gues le jour des \u00e9lections, \u00e0 inciter les \u00e9lecteurs \u00e0 aller voter. Il \u00e9tait 18 h 30 \u00e0 Vancouver, et il restait encore une demi-heure avant la fermeture des bureaux de scrutin. Je me trouvais sur le seuil de la porte d'une maison et je pouvais voir la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision par la fen\u00eatre du salon. Peter Mansbridge animait l'\u00e9mission <em>The National</em> et il a annonc\u00e9 que le Parti lib\u00e9ral formerait un gouvernement majoritaire. Cette \u00e9mission a diffus\u00e9 aux \u00e9lecteurs de la Colombie-Britannique les r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections, alors que les bureaux de scrutin \u00e9taient encore ouverts. La raison pour laquelle c'\u00e9tait permis, c'\u00e9tait que le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent gouvernement Harper a \u00e9limin\u00e9 en 2012 une loi qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9e en 1938 et qui avait depuis encadr\u00e9 toutes les \u00e9lections. La loi interdisait la diffusion anticip\u00e9e des r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections pour \u00e9viter que les \u00e9lecteurs soient au courant des r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections avant la fermeture des bureaux de scrutin. Soit dit en passant, la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que cette interdiction \u00e9tait constitutionnelle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5428939\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s savent que les r\u00e9sultats pour les habitants d'une partie du pays sont biais\u00e9s lorsqu'ils connaissent les r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections alors que les bureaux de scrutin sont toujours ouverts. Cette affirmation a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tay\u00e9e par des preuves empiriques sur le terrain; en effet, des gens et d'autres candidats m'ont dit qu'au moment de remettre les bo\u00eetes de scrutin, ils ont pu constater une nette diff\u00e9rence dans la fa\u00e7on dont les gens avaient vot\u00e9 au cours de la derni\u00e8re demi-heure du scrutin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5428940\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement de mon coll\u00e8gue n'a-t-il pas r\u00e9tabli l'interdiction de diffuser les r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections lorsque, de toute \u00e9vidence, cela a un effet corrosif qui biaise les \u00e9lections et qui d\u00e9favorise surtout les \u00e9lecteurs de la Colombie-Britannique et de l'Ouest?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/5/22/don-davies-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/don-davies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1007/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10135580",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Elections Modernization Act",
        "fr": "Loi sur la modernisation des \u00e9lections"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/5/22/",
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    }
}