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{
"time": "2025-10-31 10:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Michael Barrett",
"fr": "Michael Barrett"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8956152\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, this was why they went to fight: for a future they could not have imagined. There were literal children who were lying about their age so they could go fight for an idea that they had only just come to understand as they were coming of age as adults. They believed in what we have had the blessing and the benefit to enjoy since then: parliamentary democracy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956153\" data-originallang=\"en\">I will note that committees do not serve in an advisory role to the executive, to the <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">Prime Minister</a>, that he should dismiss out of hand simply because he can. I would say that, responsibly and ethically, he ought not and cannot dismiss it, because this place has been structured in such a way that we send bills to committee. They are referred to a committee by the House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956154\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the Liberals are just going to do whatever they want to do at the end of the day, then why the pageantry of the more than two dozen standing committees? That is not what this place is for.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8956152\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, voil\u00e0 pourquoi ils sont partis se battre: pour un avenir qu'ils ne pouvaient pas imaginer. Il y avait parmi eux des enfants, dont certains ont menti sur leur \u00e2ge afin de pouvoir aller se battre pour une id\u00e9e qu'ils venaient tout juste de comprendre \u00e0 l'approche de l'\u00e2ge adulte. Ils croyaient en quelque chose dont nous avons la chance et le privil\u00e8ge de profiter depuis lors: la d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956153\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 souligner que ce n'est pas un r\u00f4le consultatif que les comit\u00e9s jouent aupr\u00e8s de l'ex\u00e9cutif et du <a data-HoCid=\"314774\" href=\"/politicians/mark-carney/\" title=\"Mark Carney\">premier ministre</a>, r\u00f4le que ce dernier pourrait rejeter du revers de la main juste parce qu'il en a le pouvoir. Je dirais que, d'un point de vue \u00e9thique et responsable, il ne devrait pas et ne peut pas le rejeter, parce que la structure m\u00eame de cette institution pr\u00e9voit le renvoi des projets de loi aux comit\u00e9s. Ils sont renvoy\u00e9s \u00e0 un comit\u00e9 par la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8956154\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si, en fin de compte, les lib\u00e9raux font tout ce qu'ils veulent, pourquoi se donner la peine de mettre en place plus d'une vingtaine de comit\u00e9s permanents? Ce n'est pas la raison d'\u00eatre de cet endroit.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/31/michael-barrett-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michael-barrett/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4753/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13215068",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Citizenship Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/31/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2F"
}
}