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{
"time": "2022-02-14 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. John Brassard",
"fr": "M. John Brassard"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6937562\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am sure the hon. member was listening to what I said. I have been advocating for rapid tests since April 2020, a month after the COVID pandemic started storming around the world. I actually sent letters to the Minister of Health asking for the approval of certain types of rapid tests that had been approved by other blue-chip regulatory bodies, like the U.S. FDA and CE bodies in the European Union.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6937563\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is no question that rapid tests work; otherwise, they would not have been approved by Health Canada. However, that is not the issue here. The issue here is that we are debating a bill that the Liberals have dropped the hammer on, and it is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that at least requires some sense of scrutiny by MPs.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6937562\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis s\u00fbr que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a \u00e9cout\u00e9 ce que j\u2019ai dit. Je plaide en faveur des tests rapides depuis avril 2020, un mois apr\u00e8s que la pand\u00e9mie de COVID a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 d\u00e9ferler sur le monde. J\u2019ai en fait envoy\u00e9 des lettres \u00e0 la ministre de la Sant\u00e9 pour demander l\u2019approbation de certains types de tests rapides qui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 approuv\u00e9s par d\u2019autres organismes de r\u00e9glementation de premier ordre, comme la FDA aux \u00c9tats\u2011Unis et des organismes de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne utilisant le marquage CE.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6937563\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il ne fait aucun doute que les tests rapides fonctionnent; sinon, Sant\u00e9 Canada ne les aurait pas approuv\u00e9s. Cependant, l\u00e0 n\u2019est pas le probl\u00e8me. Le probl\u00e8me, c'est que nous d\u00e9battons d\u2019un projet de loi dans lequel les lib\u00e9raux y sont all\u00e9s \u00e0 fond, et qu\u2019il s\u2019agit d\u2019une mesure l\u00e9gislative de plusieurs milliards de dollars qui exige au moins un certain examen de la part des d\u00e9put\u00e9s.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/2/14/john-brassard-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-brassard/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4269/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11520503",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Business No. 8\u2014Proceedings on Bill C-10",
"fr": "L'affaire du gouvernement no 8 \u2014 Les d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations sur le projet de loi C\u201110"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/2/14/",
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}
}