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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2019-05-31 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mark Strahl (Chilliwack\u2014Hope, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Mark Strahl (Chilliwack\u2014Hope, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5956435\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, a healthy democracy relies on an independent press, free from political interference. That independence is now in jeopardy, thanks to this government's half-billion-dollar media bailout. The Canadian Association of Journalists has expressed concerns with the process that would muzzle members of the advisory panel, keep Canadians in the dark about who gets rejected for funding and allow the minister the power to overrule the panel anyway.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5956436\" data-originallang=\"en\">When will the Liberals realize how much damage they are doing to the trust and independence of our free press by trying to stack the deck in their own favour?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5956435\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, une saine d\u00e9mocratie repose sur une presse ind\u00e9pendante et \u00e0 l'abri de toute ing\u00e9rence politique. Or, cette ind\u00e9pendance est maintenant en p\u00e9ril \u00e0 cause du plan de sauvetage des m\u00e9dias d'un demi-milliard de dollars mis en place par le gouvernement. L'Association canadienne des journalistes a exprim\u00e9 des inqui\u00e9tudes au sujet d'un processus qui musellera des membres du groupe d'experts, qui n'informera pas les Canadiens des m\u00e9dias qui se verront refuser un financement et qui accordera au ministre le pouvoir d\u2019infirmer les d\u00e9cisions du groupe.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5956436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand les lib\u00e9raux se rendront-ils compte des torts qu'ils sont en train de causer \u00e0 la confiance et \u00e0 l'ind\u00e9pendance de la presse libre du pays en tentant de piper les d\u00e9s en leur propre faveur?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/5/31/mark-strahl-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mark-strahl/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4359/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10667668",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "News Media Industry",
"fr": "L'industrie des m\u00e9dias d'information"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/5/31/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2019%2F5%2F31%2F"
}
}