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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2020-05-26 17:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kevin Waugh",
"fr": "M. Kevin Waugh"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6172225\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is right, we do not need 338 members here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6172226\" data-originallang=\"en\">Like I said before, my province of Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and New Brunswick, have done a pretty good job with COVID-19. However, if members go down east, they will see it. They will see Ontario and Quebec in a deadlock. There are things that we can work out. Whoever thought we would do these Zoom virtual meetings in the beginning? Some are working and some are not, because of Internet problems. These are things that we can come to the House and have a great debate on, but we cannot debate if it is a committee of the whole. We can if we are in here, like we should be.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6172227\" data-originallang=\"en\">Even Saskatchewan is going back June 15. They are going to be working. The NDP and the Sask Party have agreed to go back to the Saskatchewan legislature for 14 sitting days. We need to be here, and we need to be in Parliament, not in a committee of the whole.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6172225\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a raison: il n'est pas n\u00e9cessaire que les 338 d\u00e9put\u00e9s soient pr\u00e9sents \u00e0 la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6172226\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je l'ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 dit, ma province, la Saskatchewan, le Manitoba et le Nouveau-Brunswick se tirent tr\u00e8s bien d'affaire face \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19. Cependant, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s savent que, dans l'Est du pays, c'est une tout autre histoire. L'Ontario et le Qu\u00e9bec sont dans une impasse. Nous pouvons faire certaines choses. Au d\u00e9part, qui aurait pens\u00e9 que nous aurions pu tenir des s\u00e9ances virtuelles sur Zoom? Certaines s\u00e9ances se passent bien, d'autres, un peu moins, \u00e0 cause de probl\u00e8mes li\u00e9s \u00e0 Internet. Nous pouvons avoir d'excellents d\u00e9bats sur certains enjeux \u00e0 la Chambre; toutefois, cela n'est pas possible au sein d'un comit\u00e9 pl\u00e9nier. Nous pouvons et devrions tenir de tels d\u00e9bats dans cette enceinte.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6172227\" data-originallang=\"en\">M\u00eame l'Assembl\u00e9e l\u00e9gislative de la Saskatchewan a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de reprendre ses travaux le 15 juin. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s vont travailler. Le NPD et le Parti de la Saskatchewan ont convenu de si\u00e9ger \u00e0 l'Assembl\u00e9e l\u00e9gislative provinciale pendant 14 jours. Nous devons si\u00e9ger au Parlement, plut\u00f4t qu'au sein d'un comit\u00e9 pl\u00e9nier.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/5/26/kevin-waugh-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-waugh/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4253/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10857899",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Proceedings of the House and Committees",
"fr": "Les travaux de la Chambre et des comit\u00e9s"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/5/26/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F5%2F26%2F"
}
}