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{
"time": "2022-10-24 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Bill Blair (President of the King\u2019s Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Bill Blair (pr\u00e9sident du Conseil priv\u00e9 du Roi pour le Canada et ministre de la Protection civile, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7358185\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the member opposite is simply wrong. The independence of police operations underpins the rule of law, and it is a principle that I have no only respected, but also defended vigorously for decades. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358186\" data-originallang=\"en\">To be very clear, as I have testified before committee, and as I have said in this House, I did not at any time direct the commissioner of the RCMP in any operational matter, including on the release of information. I did not direct her. I did not ask her. I did not even suggest that she do so. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358187\" data-originallang=\"en\">As the commissioner herself has confirmed in her testimony before the Mass Casualty Commission, she did not receive direction from me and was not influenced by our government regarding the public release of information.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7358185\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, malheureusement, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face a tout faux. L'ind\u00e9pendance des op\u00e9rations polici\u00e8res est un principe qui sous-tend la primaut\u00e9 du droit et c'est un principe non seulement que je respecte, mais que je d\u00e9fends vigoureusement depuis des d\u00e9cennies.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358186\" data-originallang=\"en\">Soyons tr\u00e8s clairs. Comme je l'ai dit dans cette enceinte ainsi que lors de mon t\u00e9moignage au comit\u00e9, je n'ai jamais, \u00e0 aucun moment, donn\u00e9 d'instructions \u00e0 la commissaire de la GRC par rapport \u00e0 des op\u00e9rations, y compris en ce qui a trait \u00e0 la publication d'information. Je ne lui ai pas donn\u00e9 d'instructions et je ne lui ai rien demand\u00e9 en ce sens. Je n'ai m\u00eame pas sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 qu'elle le fasse.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358187\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme la commissaire l'a elle-m\u00eame confirm\u00e9 lors de son t\u00e9moignage devant la Commission des pertes massives, en ce qui concerne la publication de renseignements, elle n'a pas re\u00e7u d'instructions de ma part et elle n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 influenc\u00e9e par le gouvernement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/10/24/bill-blair-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bill-blair/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4346/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11874851",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Public Safety",
"fr": "La s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/10/24/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F10%2F24%2F"
}
}