Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2025-06-05 15:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "The Speaker",
        "fr": "Le Pr\u00e9sident"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8839431\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Hon. colleagues, I thank you very much for your words in tribute to our friend and colleague, the Hon. Marc Garneau.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839432\" data-originallang=\"en\">He was a man for all seasons, a man of sterling integrity, an adventurer and a Canadian hero.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839433\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Anyone who had a chance to talk to Marc realized how accomplished he was. Everything he did was at the highest level of excellence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839434\" data-originallang=\"en\"> He was a scientist, an athlete, a public servant, an opera lover and, as anyone who has read his autobiography, <em>A Most Extraordinary Ride</em>, will know, a gifted writer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839435\" data-originallang=\"fr\">He was also a devoted family man. The last time I spoke to him, a year ago, he told me about this book and what it meant for him to write it for his family. I am halfway through the book, and I can hear Marc's voice as I turn the pages. In particular, I hear his sense of humour when he describes his adventures in space and in politics.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839436\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In the book, he recounts where he was for the first moon landing in the summer of 1969. While many of my generation were sitting in front of the television watching a fuzzy picture, Marc Garneau was on a 57-foot sailboat called the <em>Pickle</em>. He was part of a crew of 13 in a race from Newport, Rhode Island, to Cork, Ireland, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. He spoke about floating on a tranquil sea, gazing up at the moon in a brilliant night sky, listening to the radio as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the moon's own Sea of Tranquility. It was while he floated on a boat, one of the world's oldest forms of transportation, that the seed was planted for him to one day make his own great voyage, in a ship of another kind, into space.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839437\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Marc was a man of great courage and conviction. Like every member of Parliament, he brought his own perspective to this place. He was gifted with impressive intelligence and a wisdom that perhaps came from the silence and tranquility of space. Canadians, especially members of Parliament, have all benefited from that wisdom.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839438\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In his final journey, we wish him peace and offer our deepest gratitude. To his family, we present our condolences, and we hope that his extraordinary legacy is a source of comfort and pride.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8839431\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Honorables coll\u00e8gues, je vous remercie beaucoup de vos paroles en hommage \u00e0 notre ami et coll\u00e8gue l'honorable Marc Garneau.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839432\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'\u00e9tait un homme aux talents multiples, un homme d'une int\u00e9grit\u00e9 sans faille, un aventurier et un h\u00e9ros canadien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839433\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Si vous avez eu l'occasion de parler \u00e0 Marc, vous avez r\u00e9alis\u00e9 \u00e0 quel point il \u00e9tait accompli. Tout ce qu'il faisait \u00e9tait du plus haut niveau d'excellence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839434\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'\u00e9tait un scientifique, un athl\u00e8te, un serviteur de l'\u00c9tat, un amateur d'op\u00e9ra et, comme le savent tous ceux qui ont lu son autobiographie, <em>Le plus extraordinaire des voyages</em>, un \u00e9crivain talentueux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839435\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Il \u00e9tait aussi un p\u00e8re de famille d\u00e9vou\u00e9. La derni\u00e8re fois que je lui ai parl\u00e9, il y a un an, il m'a parl\u00e9 de ce livre et de ce que cela repr\u00e9sentait pour lui de l'\u00e9crire pour sa famille. J'en suis \u00e0 la moiti\u00e9 du livre et j'entends la voix de Marc en tournant les pages. J'entends notamment son humour lorsqu'il d\u00e9crit ses aventures dans l'espace et en politique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans son livre, il raconte o\u00f9 il se trouvait lors du premier alunissage \u00e0 l'\u00e9t\u00e9 1969. Alors que beaucoup de gens de ma g\u00e9n\u00e9ration \u00e9taient assis devant leur \u00e9cran de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision \u00e0 regarder des images floues, Marc Garneau se trouvait \u00e0 bord du <em>Pickle</em>, un voilier de 57 pieds. Il faisait partie d'un \u00e9quipage de 13 personnes qui participaient \u00e0 une course transatlantique entre Newport, au Rhode Island, et Cork, en Irlande. Il parle de cette exp\u00e9rience: voguant sur une mer paisible, sous un ciel nocturne lumineux, les yeux tourn\u00e9s vers la lune, il \u00e9tait en train d'\u00e9couter la radio quand Neil Armstrong et Buzz Aldrin ont fait leurs premiers pas sur la Lune, un tout autre havre de paix. C'est donc pendant sa travers\u00e9e \u00e0 bord d'un bateau, l'une des plus anciens moyens de transport au monde, que l'id\u00e9e a germ\u00e9 dans son esprit: celle de faire un jour, lui-m\u00eame, un grand voyage dans l'espace, \u00e0 bord d'un autre type de vaisseau.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839437\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Marc \u00e9tait un homme de grand courage et de grandes convictions. Comme chaque parlementaire, il a apport\u00e9 sa propre perspective \u00e0 ce lieu. Dot\u00e9 d'une intelligence impressionnante, il avait aussi une sagesse qui trouvait peut-\u00eatre sa source dans le silence et la tranquillit\u00e9 de l'espace. Les Canadiennes et les Canadiens, en particulier les parlementaires, ont tous b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 de cette sagesse.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8839438\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans son dernier voyage, nous lui souhaitons la paix et nous lui exprimons notre plus profonde gratitude. Nous offrons nos condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille et nous esp\u00e9rons que son h\u00e9ritage extraordinaire sera une source de r\u00e9confort et de fiert\u00e9.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2025/6/5/the-speaker-24/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/francis-scarpaleggia/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1480/",
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    "source_id": "13084426",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Hon. Marc Garneau",
        "fr": "L'honorable Marc Garneau"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2025/6/5/",
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