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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-09-23 13:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Sophie Chatel (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lib.)",
"fr": "Sophie Chatel (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre de l\u2019Agriculture et de l\u2019Agroalimentaire, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8877381\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois is currently claiming that all governments\u2014whether federal, provincial or territorial\u2014can invoke the notwithstanding clause at any time and limit any of the rights protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8877382\" data-originallang=\"fr\">If a new federal government decided to invoke the notwithstanding clause to limit one of the rights protected by the Charter, including women's right to equality, would my colleague 100% agree that there should be no limits and no judicial review?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8877381\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois pr\u00e9tend pr\u00e9sentement que tous les gouvernements, qu'il soit f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, provincial, territorial, peuvent en tout temps \u00e9voquer la disposition de d\u00e9rogation et limiter le droit, n'importe quel des droits qui sont prot\u00e9g\u00e9s par la Charte canadienne des droits et libert\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8877382\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Si un nouveau gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral d\u00e9cidait d'invoquer la disposition de d\u00e9rogation pour limiter un des droits prot\u00e9g\u00e9s par la Charte, dont le droit \u00e0 l'\u00e9galit\u00e9 des femmes, ma coll\u00e8gue serait-elle \u00e0 100 % d'accord pour qu'il n'y ait aucune limite et qu'il n'y ait aucune r\u00e9vision judiciaire?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/23/sophie-chatel-13/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sophie-chatel/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4712/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13134006",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Constitutional Powers of Quebec and the Provinces",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les pouvoirs constitutionnels du Qu\u00e9bec et des provinces"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/23/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F9%2F23%2F"
}
}