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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-10-28 17:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Kelly McCauley (Edmonton West, CPC)",
"fr": "Kelly McCauley (Edmonton-Ouest, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8946266\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member talked about the fact that the government has not even looked at, or cannot quantify, what the costs are going to be.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8946267\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have had the pleasure of serving on the operations committee for close to 10 years. My colleague attended as well for a short period. At one time, we had a visiting delegation from Vietnam, from their version of the operations committee. We were looking at a government bill, and the government stated that it had not costed what the bill would cost Canadians. The Communist Party members from Vietnam lectured us, saying that they would never, ever bring forward legislation without knowing what it would cost their citizens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8946268\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder what my colleague thinks about Communist Vietnam being more concerned about taxpayers and transparency than the Liberal government.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8946266\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a mentionn\u00e9 que le gouvernement n'a m\u00eame pas examin\u00e9 les co\u00fbts que cela entra\u00eenera ou qu'il n'est pas en mesure de les quantifier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8946267\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai eu le privil\u00e8ge de si\u00e9ger au comit\u00e9 des op\u00e9rations gouvernementales pendant pr\u00e8s de 10 ans. Mon coll\u00e8gue y a \u00e9galement si\u00e9g\u00e9 pendant une courte p\u00e9riode. \u00c0 un moment donn\u00e9, nous avons re\u00e7u la visite d'une d\u00e9l\u00e9gation du Vietnam, compos\u00e9e de membres de la version vietnamienne du comit\u00e9 des op\u00e9rations gouvernementales. Nous examinions un projet de loi du gouvernement, et le gouvernement a affirm\u00e9 qu'il n'avait pas \u00e9valu\u00e9 le co\u00fbt que le projet de loi repr\u00e9senterait pour les Canadiens. Les membres du Parti communiste vietnamien nous ont fait la morale, affirmant qu'ils ne pr\u00e9senteraient jamais un projet de loi sans conna\u00eetre son co\u00fbt pour leurs citoyens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8946268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande ce que mon coll\u00e8gue pense du fait que le Vietnam, un pays communiste, se soucie davantage des contribuables et de la transparence que le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/28/kelly-mccauley-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kelly-mccauley/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4397/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13204699",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Citizenship Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/28/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F10%2F28%2F"
}
}