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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": "2024-10-07 12:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Brad Vis",
"fr": "M. Brad Vis"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8594680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for those kind words.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8594681\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think he is raising a very important question. If Parliament cannot fulfill its constitutional obligation to demand papers and receive such papers, Canadians will lose trust in the House of Commons. A lot of Canadians across the country are feeling disillusioned by our institutions. That is because this institution is being prevented from doing its job.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8594682\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Canadians work so hard, but business insolvencies right now are up 50% year over year. We have seen a record loss of businesses in our country. When businesses that have worked hard to stay afloat and create jobs see this institution throwing around hundreds of millions of dollars and not getting to the bottom of it, they question what is really going on in Ottawa.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8594680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue de ses bons mots.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8594681\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense qu'il soul\u00e8ve une question tr\u00e8s importante. Si le Parlement ne peut pas remplir son obligation constitutionnelle d'exiger la production de documents et de les recevoir, les Canadiens perdront confiance dans la Chambre des communes. De nombreux Canadiens de partout au pays se sentent d\u00e9sillusionn\u00e9s par nos institutions. C'est parce qu'on emp\u00eache cette institution de faire son travail.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8594682\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les Canadiens travaillent d'arrache-pied, mais les faillites d'entreprises ont augment\u00e9 de 50 % d'une ann\u00e9e \u00e0 l'autre. Nous avons enregistr\u00e9 un nombre record de pertes d'entreprises dans notre pays. Lorsque des entreprises qui s'efforcent de rester \u00e0 flot et de cr\u00e9er des emplois voient cette institution d\u00e9penser des centaines de millions de dollars sans faire toute la lumi\u00e8re sur la situation, elles se demandent ce qui se passe vraiment \u00e0 Ottawa.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/10/7/brad-vis-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/brad-vis/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4517/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12908912",
"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/2024/10/7/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F10%2F7%2F"
}
}