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{
    "time": "2024-10-28 18:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Andrew Scheer",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Andrew Scheer"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8647564\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I can tell the member what would not happen: The government would not comply with the production order.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8647565\" data-originallang=\"en\">It all comes back to the \u201cwho made who\u201d type of thing, so let us go all the way back. Corruption happened at SDTC. Liberal insiders lined the pockets of their own companies, knowingly putting themselves in conflict of interest positions. One of the board members actually ran away from a Zoom call. She just darted off camera because she did not like some of the questions she was getting.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8647566\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Government officials, including senior cabinet ministers, knew about this and did nothing. They did not call in the cops, did not try to get Canadians their money back and did not try to hold anybody accountable. They tried to sweep it under the rug.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8647567\" data-originallang=\"en\"> As the details came out at committee, the Liberals continued to filibuster and stonewall to try to prevent Canadians and parliamentarians from knowing what happened. Our last recourse as the opposition was to use our powers as a collective to produce these papers. The Liberals continue to refuse to do that. That is the reason we are still debating this motion.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8647564\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je peux dire au d\u00e9put\u00e9 ce qui ne se produirait pas: le gouvernement ne se conformerait pas \u00e0 l'ordonnance de communication.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8647565\" data-originallang=\"en\">On en revient toujours \u00e0 la question de savoir qui a fait quoi, alors retournons au tout d\u00e9but de l'histoire. Il y a eu de la corruption \u00e0 Technologies du d\u00e9veloppement durable Canada. Des proches du Parti lib\u00e9ral ont rempli les coffres de leurs entreprises et, ce faisant, ne pouvaient pas ignorer qu'ils se mettaient en situation de conflit d'int\u00e9r\u00eats. L'une des membres du conseil d'administration a en fait quitt\u00e9 un appel sur Zoom. Elle a brusquement \u00e9teint sa cam\u00e9ra parce qu'elle n'aimait pas certaines des questions qu'on lui posait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8647566\" data-originallang=\"en\">Des fonctionnaires et des ministres de premier plan \u00e9taient au courant de la situation, mais ils n'ont rien fait. Ils n'ont pas appel\u00e9 la police, ils n'ont pas tent\u00e9 de r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer l'argent des Canadiens et ils n'ont pas essay\u00e9 de demander des comptes \u00e0 qui que ce soit. Ils ont essay\u00e9 de tout balayer sous le tapis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8647567\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque l'information a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9voil\u00e9e au comit\u00e9, les lib\u00e9raux ont continu\u00e9 leurs man\u0153uvres d'obstruction pour tenter d'emp\u00eacher les Canadiens et les parlementaires de savoir ce qui s'est pass\u00e9. Le dernier recours de l'opposition, que nous avons employ\u00e9, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d'utiliser ses pouvoirs collectivement pour rendre ces documents publics. Les lib\u00e9raux refusent toujours de le faire. C'est la raison pour laquelle nous d\u00e9battons encore de cette motion.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/10/28/andrew-scheer-9/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-scheer/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1535/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12954297",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Orders of the Day",
        "fr": "Ordre du jour"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Privilege",
        "fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs",
        "fr": "Le renvoi au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/10/28/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2F"
    }
}