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{
"time": "2023-10-26 12:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Jennifer O'Connell (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs (Cybersecurity), Lib.)",
"fr": "Mme Jennifer O'Connell (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique, des Institutions d\u00e9mocratiques et des Affaires intergouvernementales (Cybers\u00e9curit\u00e9), Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7974298\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today on this topic. I have to wonder, however, if the Conservatives made a very critical error in their strategy. It is interesting to me that the member for <a data-HoCid=\"278442\" href=\"/politicians/garnett-genuis/\" title=\"Garnett Genuis\">Sherwood Park\u2014Fort Saskatchewan</a> actually used the issue of the Canada Infrastructure Bank to filibuster the legislation that was scheduled to be discussed today, which actually would allow and authorize the <a data-HoCid=\"271243\" href=\"/politicians/francois-philippe-champagne/\" title=\"Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne\">minister of industry</a>, where he considers that investment could be injurious to national security, to review such things.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7974299\" data-originallang=\"en\"> It is interesting that the Conservatives, who talk tough when it comes to national security, would have an opportunity to actually debate having legislation to keep Canadian national security interests at the forefront of what we do, which would modernize the legislation. What are the Conservatives doing instead? They are filibustering and blocking legislation. I think their strategy today is going to be very telling for Canadians: They do not actually care about national security interests in this country, because if they did\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7974298\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis heureuse de prendre la parole aujourd\u2019hui sur ce sujet. Je me demande toutefois si les conservateurs n\u2019ont pas commis une erreur tr\u00e8s grave dans leur strat\u00e9gie. Je trouve int\u00e9ressant que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"278442\" href=\"/politicians/garnett-genuis/\" title=\"Garnett Genuis\">Sherwood Park\u2014Fort Saskatchewan</a> ait utilis\u00e9 la question de la Banque de l\u2019infrastructure du Canada pour faire obstruction au projet de loi qui devait \u00eatre d\u00e9battu aujourd\u2019hui et qui permettrait au <a data-HoCid=\"271243\" href=\"/politicians/francois-philippe-champagne/\" title=\"Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne\">ministre de l\u2019Industrie</a> d\u2019examiner de telles questions lorsqu\u2019il estime que l\u2019investissement pourrait nuire \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7974299\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est int\u00e9ressant de constater que les conservateurs, qui parlent durement lorsqu\u2019il s\u2019agit de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale, auraient l\u2019occasion de d\u00e9battre d\u2019une loi qui maintiendrait les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale canadienne au premier plan de ce que nous faisons, et qui moderniserait la l\u00e9gislation. Que font les conservateurs au lieu de cela? Ils font de l\u2019obstruction et bloquent le projet de loi. Je pense que leur strat\u00e9gie d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui sera tr\u00e8s r\u00e9v\u00e9latrice pour les Canadiens: Ils ne se soucient vraiment pas de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale dans ce pays, car s\u2019ils le faisaient...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/10/26/jennifer-oconnell-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jennifer-oconnell/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4356/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12395319",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Transport, Infrastructure and Communities",
"fr": "Transports, infrastructure et collectivit\u00e9s"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/10/26/",
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}
}