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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-12-04 15:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Luc Berthold (M\u00e9gantic\u2014L'\u00c9rable\u2014Lotbini\u00e8re, CPC)",
"fr": "Luc Berthold (M\u00e9gantic\u2014L'\u00c9rable\u2014Lotbini\u00e8re, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9042190\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I spoke on this same point of order last week to ask you to allow one of our members to continue asking his question, because he had 15 seconds left in his time and he was about to get to his question on government business. I think that my Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois colleague's argument is entirely justified.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9042191\" data-originallang=\"fr\">However, I find the gratuitous attack just launched by the government House leader, which is not relevant to the point of order, to be completely unwarranted. Mr. Speaker, you allowed him to issue this unwarranted attack that was completely out of context. We have the right to ask our questions. That is our right. We represent our constituents, so it is not up to the government House leader to decide what questions members of the official opposition or any other member of the House, for that matter, can ask.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9042192\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I will wait to give my other comments on my colleague's point of order later.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9042190\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'\u00e9tais moi-m\u00eame intervenu la semaine derni\u00e8re sur ce m\u00eame recours au R\u00e8glement pour vous demander de permettre \u00e0 l'un de nos d\u00e9put\u00e9s de continuer de poser sa question parce qu'il lui restait 15 secondes de temps de parole au cours desquelles il allait effectivement poser une question sur les affaires du gouvernement. Je consid\u00e8re que l'argumentation de ma coll\u00e8gue du Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois est tout \u00e0 fait justifi\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9042191\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je trouve cependant totalement injustifi\u00e9e l'attaque gratuite que vient de faire le leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre et qui n'a pas de lien avec le recours au R\u00e8glement. Vous lui avez permis, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, de faire cette attaque injustifi\u00e9e et totalement hors contexte. Nous avons le droit de poser nos questions. C'est notre droit. Nous repr\u00e9sentons des citoyens. Le leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre n'a donc pas \u00e0 d\u00e9cider des questions que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l'opposition officielle vont poser ni de celles d'aucun autre d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 la Chambre, d'ailleurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9042192\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vais r\u00e9server mes autres commentaires au sujet du recours au R\u00e8glement de ma coll\u00e8gue \u00e0 plus tard.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/12/4/luc-berthold-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/luc-berthold/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4708/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13292629",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Points of Order",
"fr": "Recours au R\u00e8glement"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Les questions orales"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/12/4/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F12%2F4%2F"
}
}