Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2019-04-05 12:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Arif Virani",
        "fr": "M. Arif Virani"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5851648\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, those are a couple of important points, and I think they bear some explanation. I am glad the member opposite raised them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851649\" data-originallang=\"en\">The issue before the court right now, as I have mentioned, is a third-party records application. It is for the evidence and documents to support, in a preliminary manner, what will eventually become the evidentiary base in the trial. That is what is before the court right now. That is what the court is deliberating upon.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851650\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member opposite raised the issue of government compliance with court orders. This government, any government in Canada, thankfully, complies with court orders. That is what the rule of law means. We continue to do so.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851651\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, on the issue of the government's participation in the process, justice department lawyers are participating equally and at the same time as Vice-Admiral Norman's lawyers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851652\" data-originallang=\"en\">On the issue of the payment of legal expenses, what the member opposite should know is that we are applying a Treasury Board policy that has been in place since, I believe, 2006. That policy was put in place by the previous government. It is a good policy, and it is a policy that addresses the needs of people who find themselves facing litigation. That is the policy that is being applied and is being enforced in this case.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5851648\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a soulev\u00e9 des questions importantes et j'estime que cela m\u00e9rite des explications. Je suis heureux que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face ait soulev\u00e9 ces questions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851649\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne l'affaire qui est actuellement devant les tribunaux, comme je l'ai dit, la communication de dossiers de tiers vise \u00e0 transmettre des \u00e9l\u00e9ments de preuve et des documents de fa\u00e7on pr\u00e9liminaire afin de constituer la preuve qui sera examin\u00e9e pendant le proc\u00e8s. C'est l\u00e0-dessus que la cour se penche actuellement et qu'elle fonde ses d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851650\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face a parl\u00e9 du respect des ordonnances de la cour par le gouvernement. Heureusement, tous les gouvernements du pays, y compris l'actuel gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, se plient aux ordonnances de la cour. C'est ce que la primaut\u00e9 du droit exige. Nous allons continuer de respecter ce principe.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851651\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, en ce qui concerne la participation du gouvernement au processus, les avocats du minist\u00e8re de la Justice y participent en m\u00eame temps que les avocats du vice-amiral Norman.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5851652\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ce qui est du paiement des frais juridiques, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face devrait savoir que nous appliquons une politique du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor qui, je crois, remonte \u00e0 2006. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 mise en place par le gouvernement pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. C'est une bonne politique qui permet de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins de ceux qui sont vis\u00e9s par des poursuites. C'est la politique que nous appliquons dans le cas qui nous occupe.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2019/4/5/arif-virani-18/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/arif-virani/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4435/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10559344",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Justice",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 La justice"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2019/4/5/",
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