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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": "2022-02-14 12:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Stephen Ellis",
"fr": "M. Stephen Ellis"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6937010\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I appreciate that it is important that we maintain our decorum in the House. It is also important that we understand what the democratic process is. For my colleagues across the floor to attempt to ram a bill through the House without debate when we all know the Senate is not even here until next week really does not make any sense. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6937011\" data-originallang=\"en\">The question that needs to be answered in my mind is what the harm is of giving due diligence to a bill to understand what the science is behind it and bringing it to committee, as we normally would do. Considering that we on this side of the House have been asking for rapid tests for 18 months, what is now the urgency, when during the height of the omicron variant surge we did not even have tests, and now it appears many restrictions are being lifted? Those are the germane points that are important for people to understand.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6937010\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je comprends qu\u2019il est important de maintenir un certain d\u00e9corum \u00e0 la Chambre. Il est \u00e9galement important que nous comprenions en quoi consiste le processus d\u00e9mocratique. Mes coll\u00e8gues d\u2019en face tentent de faire adopter un projet de loi \u00e0 toute vapeur \u00e0 la Chambre sans d\u00e9bat alors que nous savons tous que le S\u00e9nat ne sera m\u00eame pas ici avant la semaine prochaine. Cela n\u2019a vraiment aucun sens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6937011\" data-originallang=\"en\">La question \u00e0 laquelle il faut r\u00e9pondre, \u00e0 mon avis, est la suivante: quel mal y a-t-il \u00e0 faire preuve de diligence raisonnable \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard d\u2019un projet de loi pour comprendre les donn\u00e9es scientifiques qui le sous-tendent et le renvoyer au comit\u00e9, comme nous le ferions normalement? \u00c9tant donn\u00e9 que nous, de ce c\u00f4t\u00e9-ci de la Chambre, r\u00e9clamons des tests rapides depuis 18 mois, quelle est l\u2019urgence maintenant, alors qu\u2019au plus fort de la flamb\u00e9e du variant Omicron, nous n\u2019avions m\u00eame pas de tests et qu\u2019il semble maintenant que de nombreuses restrictions sont lev\u00e9es? Ce sont justement les choses pertinentes que les gens veulent comprendre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/2/14/stephen-ellis-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/stephen-ellis/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4645/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11519345",
"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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}
}