Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2026-06-17 21:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)",
        "fr": "Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417124\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands on her speech. She has been in this House for many years. My colleague was very, very young when she was first elected, as we all know. She has seen various permutations of government.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417125\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I was first elected in 2019. The Liberal government held a minority. We had to debate important bills and sensitive issues. The government had no choice at that time but to negotiate with one of the opposition parties. Even though feathers got ruffled on a few occasions, particularly among the Conservatives and the Liberals\u2014some committees got pretty rowdy\u2014bills were always passed in the end, thanks to the co-operation of the opposition parties.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417126\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Now we have a government that has secured a majority through various manoeuvres, as everyone is well aware. The fact remains, however, that the views, ideas and contributions that opposition parties can bring to bills as important as Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13957880\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-22/\" title=\"An Act respecting lawful access\">C-22</a> are essential. I think it is quite shameful that the government has decided to shut the door on these discussions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417127\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to know whether my colleague for Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands thinks that the Liberals got burned so badly over the past few years that now they are saying enough is enough, they can do what they like without giving the opposition a second thought, they can manage their affairs as they see fit, that is just the way it is now that they have their majority, and democracy be damned. I would like to know what my colleague thinks about that.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417124\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je f\u00e9licite la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands pour son discours. Elle est dans ce Parlement depuis de nombreuses ann\u00e9es. Ma coll\u00e8gue est arriv\u00e9e tr\u00e8s, tr\u00e8s jeune, on s'entend. Elle a vu diff\u00e9rentes formules de gouvernement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417125\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Moi, je suis arriv\u00e9 en 2019. Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral \u00e9tait minoritaire. Nous avons eu \u00e0 d\u00e9battre de projets de loi importants, et m\u00eame de sujets sensibles. Le gouvernement n'avait pas le choix, \u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0, de n\u00e9gocier avec un des partis de l'opposition. M\u00eame si on s'est frott\u00e9 les plumes \u00e0 quelques reprises, en particulier les conservateurs et les lib\u00e9raux \u2014 on a vu quand m\u00eame pas mal de brasse-camarade dans certains comit\u00e9s \u2014, les projets de loi ont toujours pu \u00eatre adopt\u00e9s, ultimement, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la collaboration des partis de l'opposition.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417126\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On se retrouve avec un gouvernement devenu majoritaire par diff\u00e9rents stratag\u00e8mes, on le sait. Il n'en reste pas moins que les opinions, les id\u00e9es, ce que peuvent apporter les partis de l'opposition dans des projets de loi aussi importants que le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13957880\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-22/\" title=\"An Act respecting lawful access\">C\u201122</a> sont essentiels. Je trouve tr\u00e8s dommage que le gouvernement ait d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de fermer la porte \u00e0 ces discussions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417127\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Je voudrais savoir si ma coll\u00e8gue de Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands pense que les lib\u00e9raux ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 ce point \u00e9chaud\u00e9s au cours des derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es que, pr\u00e9sentement, ils se disent que \u00e7a suffit, qu'ils peuvent faire \u00e0 leur t\u00eate et se foutre de l'opposition, qu'ils peuvent mener leur barque comme bon leur semble, que c'est \u00e7a qui est \u00e7a puisqu'ils ont leur majorit\u00e9, et au diable la d\u00e9mocratie. J'aimerais savoir ce que ma coll\u00e8gue en pense.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2026/6/17/martin-champoux-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/martin-champoux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4585/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13590566",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Government Business No. 13\u2014Proceedings on Bill C\u201122",
        "fr": "L'affaire \u00e9manant du gouvernement no 13 \u2014 Les d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations sur le projet de loi C\u201122"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2026/6/17/",
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    }
}