Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2024-11-04 13:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Scott Reid",
        "fr": "M. Scott Reid"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8669191\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I likewise very much enjoy my colleague's interventions. I enjoy them much more than the ones from the member for <a data-HoCid=\"278257\" href=\"/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/\" title=\"Kevin Lamoureux\">Winnipeg North</a>, if we are being honest about things, although I do not get to enjoy them as frequently.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8669192\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I want to say with regard to this that I was intimately involved in the procedure and House affairs hearings in 2011 into the purported contempt of Parliament of the then minority government headed by Stephen Harper. A series of charges were made against the government. One charge had to do with the procurement of jets. Another one had to do with an imaginary plan to set up for-profit prisons. This was the issue on which a vote of non-confidence was held. It endorsed the report of a committee that never actually finished reporting. I know this because I was sitting in that committee debating the content of an eventual report when the bells rang, ending our debate, so the vote could be held on concurrence in the report we had not actually finished writing. I think that is what the member is referring to. Ultimately, as the member for <a data-HoCid=\"278257\" href=\"/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/\" title=\"Kevin Lamoureux\">Winnipeg North</a> likes to point out, the government was found in contempt. What he does not mention is that in the subsequent election, the Conservatives were elected with a majority and the member's party was reduced to its lowest numbers since Confederation.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8669191\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'appr\u00e9cie moi aussi les interventions de mon coll\u00e8gue. Pour \u00eatre honn\u00eate, je les appr\u00e9cie bien plus que celles du d\u00e9put\u00e9 <a data-HoCid=\"278257\" href=\"/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/\" title=\"Kevin Lamoureux\">Winnipeg\u2011Nord</a>, m\u00eame si je n'ai pas l'occasion de les appr\u00e9cier aussi souvent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8669192\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 dire \u00e0 ce sujet que j'ai particip\u00e9 de pr\u00e8s aux audiences du comit\u00e9 de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre en 2011 concernant le pr\u00e9tendu outrage au Parlement du gouvernement minoritaire de l'\u00e9poque, dirig\u00e9 par Stephen Harper. Une s\u00e9rie d'accusations avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 port\u00e9es contre le gouvernement. L'une d'entre elles concernait l'achat d'avions de chasse. Une autre concernait un projet imaginaire de prisons \u00e0 but lucratif. C'est sur cette question qu'un vote de d\u00e9fiance a eu lieu. Il a ent\u00e9rin\u00e9 le rapport d'un comit\u00e9 qui n'avait jamais fini de le r\u00e9diger. Je le sais parce que je si\u00e9geais au comit\u00e9 qui d\u00e9battait du contenu du futur rapport lorsque le timbre a sonn\u00e9, ce qui a mis fin \u00e0 notre d\u00e9bat, afin que nous votions sur l'approbation du rapport que nous n'avions pas encore fini de r\u00e9diger. Je pense que c'est de cela que parle le d\u00e9put\u00e9. Au bout du compte, comme se pla\u00eet \u00e0 le souligner le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"278257\" href=\"/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/\" title=\"Kevin Lamoureux\">Winnipeg\u2011Nord</a>, le gouvernement a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu coupable d'outrage. Ce qu'il ne mentionne pas, en revanche, c'est qu'aux \u00e9lections suivantes, les conservateurs ont remport\u00e9 un mandat majoritaire, alors que le nombre de d\u00e9put\u00e9s dans le parti du d\u00e9put\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit \u00e0 son plus bas niveau depuis la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/11/4/scott-reid-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/scott-reid/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4349/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12971583",
    "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/2024/11/4/",
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}