Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-06-07 20:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, GP)",
        "fr": "Mme Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, PV)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5469675\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, one of the parliamentary rights we have as members of Parliament is that we not need to yield to our whips. The member need not yield to his whip. He could continue to speak for 20 minutes. The Speaker recognized the member and there was no need for the member to yield when he had a 20-minute speech, and I am sure all 20 minutes are important. I regret that the power of whips over individual members in this place is so uniformly accepted. The member for <a data-HoCid=\"214378\" href=\"/politicians/harold-albrecht/\" title=\"Harold Albrecht\">Kitchener\u2014Conestoga</a> has graciously and without any particular reason yielded his spot to someone else. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5469676\" data-originallang=\"en\">I agree with him about the elimination of preliminary hearings. We may find that will create more delays. That has certainly been an early critique of this bill, that preliminary inquiries can speed up matters by allowing early decision-making about whether there is enough evidence and whether a case should proceed to trial. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5469677\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if the member wants to expand on whether he thinks the government has gone too far in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9745407\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-75/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-75</a> by proposing to completely do away with preliminary inquiries.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5469675\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, l'un des droits parlementaires dont nous jouissons en tant que d\u00e9put\u00e9s est de ne pas c\u00e9der aux whips. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 n'a pas \u00e0 c\u00e9der \u00e0 son whip. Il pourrait continuer de parler pendant 20 minutes. Le Pr\u00e9sident a donn\u00e9 la parole au d\u00e9put\u00e9. Il n'y avait aucune raison pour lui de c\u00e9der la parole alors qu'il avait le droit de faire un discours de 20 minutes \u2014 et je suis s\u00fbre que chacune de ces 20 minutes aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 importante. Je d\u00e9plore que le pouvoir exerc\u00e9 par les whips sur les d\u00e9put\u00e9s \u00e0 la Chambre soit g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement admis. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"214378\" href=\"/politicians/harold-albrecht/\" title=\"Harold Albrecht\">Kitchener\u2014Conestoga</a> a partag\u00e9 gentiment son temps de parole avec un autre d\u00e9put\u00e9 sans qu'il ait de raison particuli\u00e8re de le faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5469676\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis d'accord avec lui quant \u00e0 la suppression des audiences pr\u00e9liminaires. Il se pourrait que nous constations que cela cr\u00e9e davantage de retard. Ce fut une des premi\u00e8res critiques soulev\u00e9es contre le projet de loi, soit que les enqu\u00eates pr\u00e9liminaires peuvent acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer les choses en permettant la prise de d\u00e9cision rapide pour d\u00e9terminer s'il y a suffisamment de preuve et s'il doit y avoir un proc\u00e8s. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5469677\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je me demande si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pourrait dire s'il pense que le gouvernement est all\u00e9 trop loin dans le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"9745407\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-75/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-75</a> en proposant d'\u00e9liminer compl\u00e8tement les enqu\u00eates pr\u00e9liminaires. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/6/7/elizabeth-may-11/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/elizabeth-may/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4108/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10199820",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Criminal Code",
        "fr": "Le Code criminel"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/6/7/",
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    }
}