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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-11-20 11:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Maxime Blanchette-Joncas",
"fr": "Maxime Blanchette-Joncas"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9001938\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, it always amuses me to hear my colleague from Winnipeg North speak.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001939\" data-originallang=\"fr\">He says that his government makes laws, but then it makes other laws to get around and sidestep the laws it made. What is the point of making laws if they can be sidestepped? That is what the government did with Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13547622\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-5/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act\">C\u20115</a>. That is quite clear.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001940\" data-originallang=\"fr\">He tells us that his government has some good bills, and yet the government does not want to comply with the laws it has made, so a new law is needed to get around them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001941\" data-originallang=\"fr\">What makes a bill good is when it abides by the law. It is pretty easy to understand. That is what democracy is all about. After that, we can debate, we can amend the laws or make adjustments. In this case, however, the government is trying to get around a dozen laws.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001942\" data-originallang=\"fr\">When a government has nothing to hide, it proves that its bills are good and it gets them passed using the processes in place, but that is not what this government is doing right now.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9001938\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est toujours dr\u00f4le d'entendre les propos de mon coll\u00e8gue de Winnipeg-Nord.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001939\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il dit que son gouvernement fait des lois, mais qu'il fait ensuite d'autres lois pour contourner et \u00e9viter les lois qu'il a d\u00e9j\u00e0 faites. \u00c0 quoi \u00e7a sert de faire des lois si on peut les contourner? C'est ce qu'il a fait dans le cas du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13547622\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-5/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act\">C\u20115</a>. C'est assez \u00e9vident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001940\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il nous dit que son gouvernement a de bons projets, mais qu'il ne veut pas respecter les lois qu'il a faites; il va donc falloir une nouvelle loi pour les contourner.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001941\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quand un projet est bon, il respecte les lois. C'est assez simple \u00e0 comprendre. C'est simplement \u00e7a, la d\u00e9mocratie. Apr\u00e8s \u00e7a, on peut d\u00e9battre, on peut modifier les lois, les ajuster. Or, dans ce cas-ci, on cherche tout de m\u00eame \u00e0 \u00e9viter d'une dizaine de lois.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9001942\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quand on n'a rien \u00e0 cacher, on montre que les projets de loi sont bons, et on les fait adopter au moyen des processus actuels. Or ce n'est pas ce que fait actuellement ce gouvernement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/20/maxime-blanchette-joncas-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/maxime-blanchette-joncas/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4716/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13249575",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1",
"fr": "Loi no 1 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2025"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/20/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F11%2F20%2F"
}
}