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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2019-05-16 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Cheryl Hardcastle (Windsor\u2014Tecumseh, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Cheryl Hardcastle (Windsor\u2014Tecumseh, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5926299\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, 15 months ago, the government promised that Canada's ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, CORE, would be able to investigate human rights abuses committed by Canadian companies abroad, but these investigative powers are caught up in red tape, and it looks like it will not even open by the election. The government has a serious issue with corporate ethics and accountability, as the SNC-Lavalin scandal shows us, so this CORE office must be opened up and running by the summer. Will this minister follow up\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5926299\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y a 15 mois, le gouvernement a promis que l'ombudsman canadien de la responsabilit\u00e9 des entreprises pourrait enqu\u00eater sur les atteintes aux droits de la personne commises par des entreprises canadiennes \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger, mais ces pouvoirs d'enqu\u00eate sont emp\u00eatr\u00e9s dans la bureaucratie, et il semble que le bureau de l'ombudsman n'ouvrira m\u00eame pas ses portes d'ici aux \u00e9lections. Le gouvernement a un grave probl\u00e8me concernant l'\u00e9thique et la responsabilisation des entreprises, comme le montre le scandale SNC-Lavalin. Il faudrait donc que le bureau de l'ombudsman ouvre et soit op\u00e9rationnel d'ici l'\u00e9t\u00e9. Le ministre entend-il faire un suivi... </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/5/16/cheryl-hardcastle-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/cheryl-hardcastle/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4270/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10641286",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "International Trade",
"fr": "Le commerce international"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/5/16/",
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}
}