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{
"time": "2019-06-03 16:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Robert Aubin (Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Robert Aubin (Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5961004\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"214171\" href=\"/politicians/luc-berthold/\" title=\"Luc Berthold\">M\u00e9gantic\u2014L'\u00c9rable</a> for his speech. I support part (a) of his motion, with which I fully agree. Unfortunately, when we get to part (b) things start to sour. I would like to draw attention to some of the terms used in the wording of the motion, which make it totally impossible for me to understand the purpose and to support it. It states: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961005\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> express its belief that...partisan political actors. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961006\" data-originallang=\"fr\">They would have us believe that being politically engaged is wrong. In my 25 years of teaching, I used every platform I had to tell the young people I talked to about the need for political engagement. Of course, political engagement means taking a stand on an ideology. \u201cEnlightenment comes when ideas collide\u201d, as the saying goes. If we have all political stripes in committee then we can settle on a course of action. To me that is definition of engaging in politics. Worse yet, the motion says: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961007\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> it is inappropriate...to pick winners and losers in the media in an election year; </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961008\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Does that mean that if this were not an election year, then it would be appropriate to get the friends of the party, either Conservative or Liberal, to pick and choose?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5961004\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"214171\" href=\"/politicians/luc-berthold/\" title=\"Luc Berthold\">M\u00e9gantic\u2014L'\u00c9rable</a> de son discours. J'appuie d\u00e9j\u00e0 l'article a) de sa motion, sur lequel je suis d'accord \u00e0 100 %. Malheureusement, quand on arrive \u00e0 l'article b), cela se g\u00e2te. Je voudrais attirer l'attention sur quelques termes dans la formulation de la motion qui font que cela m'est totalement impossible de comprendre l'objectif et de l'appuyer. On dit: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961005\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> [...] exprime sa conviction que des acteurs engag\u00e9s dans la politique partisane [...] </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961006\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On veut essayer de nous faire croire qu'\u00eatre engag\u00e9 politiquement, c'est mal. Pendant mes 25 ann\u00e9es d'enseignement, j'ai plaid\u00e9, sur toutes les tribunes possibles, la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de l'engagement politique aupr\u00e8s des jeunes \u00e0 qui je parlais. Forc\u00e9ment, un engagement politique, cela vient avec une prise de position sur une id\u00e9ologie. \u00ab Du choc des id\u00e9es jaillit la lumi\u00e8re \u00bb, dit l'expression. Si, au comit\u00e9, on retrouve toutes les tendances, on peut bien avoir une orientation choisie. Il me semble que c'est cela, par d\u00e9finition, faire de la politique. Pire encore, la motion dit: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961007\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> [...] ne devraient pas choisir, en pleine ann\u00e9e \u00e9lectorale, les gagnants et les perdants dans le secteur des m\u00e9dias; </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"5961008\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Est-ce que cela veut dire que s'il n'y a pas de campagne \u00e9lectorale en cours, c'est possible de faire faire nos choix par les amis du parti, qu'ils soient conservateurs ou lib\u00e9raux?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/6/3/robert-aubin-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/robert-aubin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4034/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10670758",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014News Media Industry",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'industrie des m\u00e9dias d'information"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/6/3/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2019%2F6%2F3%2F"
}
}