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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=\"7358195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, in these circumstances, it is apparent that the member opposite's reach exceeds his grasp. The simple truth is that at no time was any direction given by me. Under Canadian law, the RCMP Act, the only person authorized to give direction to the RCMP is the minister of public safety. I held that role at the time. I respected the principle underlying the rule of law that politics will not interfere with police operations. At no time did I give that direction. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Those are the facts as I have testified and as the commissioner of the RCMP has confirmed.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7358195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, malheureusement, il est \u00e9vident que cette affaire d\u00e9passe le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face. C'est simple: je n'ai \u00e0 aucun moment donn\u00e9 de directives. En vertu de la loi canadienne, et plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment de la Loi sur la Gendarmerie royale du Canada, la seule personne autoris\u00e9e \u00e0 donner des directives \u00e0 la GRC est le ministre de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique. C'est le poste que j'occupais \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque. J'ai respect\u00e9 le principe sous\u2011tendant la primaut\u00e9 du droit qui veut que la politique ne doive pas s'immiscer dans les op\u00e9rations polici\u00e8res. Je n'ai jamais donn\u00e9 de directives.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7358196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voil\u00e0 les faits tels que j'en ai t\u00e9moign\u00e9 et que la commissaire de la GRC les a confirm\u00e9s.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/10/24/bill-blair-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bill-blair/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4346/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11874863",
"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"
}
}