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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2024-02-26 15:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington\u2014Halton Hills, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Michael Chong (Wellington\u2014Halton Hills, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8239932\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the four MPs on the Winnipeg lab committee found that most of the information the government withheld from Parliament was withheld to shield the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> and ministers from embarrassment rather than to protect national security. These four MPs, including a Liberal member, recommended that the majority of the information withheld by the government be made public.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8239933\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the government finally admit that its decision to withhold documents from Parliament was not to protect national security, but rather to protect itself from political embarrassment?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8239932\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les quatre d\u00e9put\u00e9s membres du comit\u00e9 qui a examin\u00e9 les documents relatifs au laboratoire de Winnipeg ont constat\u00e9 que la plupart des renseignements que le gouvernement avait dissimul\u00e9s au Parlement avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 cach\u00e9s dans le but d'\u00e9viter que le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> et des ministres soient mis dans l'embarras et non de prot\u00e9ger la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. Ces quatre d\u00e9put\u00e9s, y compris la d\u00e9put\u00e9e lib\u00e9rale, ont recommand\u00e9 que la majorit\u00e9 des renseignements dissimul\u00e9s par le gouvernement soient rendus publics.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8239933\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement admettra-t-il enfin que sa d\u00e9cision de cacher des documents au Parlement ne visait pas \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale, mais plut\u00f4t \u00e0 se prot\u00e9ger contre une situation politique g\u00eanante?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/2/26/michael-chong-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michael-chong/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1440/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12602825",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Public Safety",
"fr": "La s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/2/26/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F2%2F26%2F"
}
}