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{
"time": "2026-06-17 20:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ryan Turnbull (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and National Revenue and to the Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions), Lib.)",
"fr": "Ryan Turnbull (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre des Finances et du Revenu national et du secr\u00e9taire d'\u00c9tat (Agence du revenu du Canada et Institutions financi\u00e8res), Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417036\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Madam Speaker, I know the member. She and I share a border, being from Oshawa and Durham region, respectively.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417037\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I know that our chief of police and the Durham Regional Police Service have been asking for lawful access. This is a tool that our government was elected to give police officers, police forces and law enforcement agencies across Canada to be able to do the investigative work they need to do.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417038\" data-originallang=\"en\"> If the member opposite is truly tough on crime and listens to our police force and law enforcement, then what I want to say is that obstruction is not the same as scrutiny. What we have seen from the Conservative Party is obstruction. I witnessed it on the finance committee just last week, with 25 hours of time wasted, only to be told that it was really about another bill in another committee. The Conservatives held us hostage for ransom.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417039\" data-originallang=\"en\"> If the member opposite was so concerned about time for debate, then what does she have to say about the waste of time that her colleagues have perpetrated in other committees?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9417036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je connais la d\u00e9put\u00e9e. Elle et moi partageons une fronti\u00e8re, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que nous sommes respectivement originaires d'Oshawa et de la r\u00e9gion de Durham.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417037\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je sais que le chef de police et le Service de police r\u00e9gional de Durham r\u00e9clament l'acc\u00e8s l\u00e9gal. Le gouvernement a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu pour mettre cet outil \u00e0 la disposition des policiers, des services de police et des organismes d'application de la loi partout au Canada afin qu'ils puissent mener les enqu\u00eates dont ils ont besoin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417038\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face est r\u00e9ellement pr\u00eate \u00e0 s\u00e9vir contre la criminalit\u00e9 et qu'elle \u00e9coute les forces de l'ordre, alors je tiens \u00e0 dire que faire de l'obstruction n'\u00e9quivaut pas \u00e0 proc\u00e9der \u00e0 un examen minutieux. Ce que fait le Parti conservateur, c'est de l'obstruction. J'en ai \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moin au comit\u00e9 des finances pas plus tard que la semaine derni\u00e8re: le comit\u00e9 a gaspill\u00e9 25 heures pour finalement apprendre qu'il \u00e9tait plut\u00f4t question d'un autre projet de loi \u00e9tudi\u00e9 par un autre comit\u00e9. Les conservateurs nous ont tenus en otage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9417039\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face \u00e9tait si pr\u00e9occup\u00e9e par le temps allou\u00e9 au d\u00e9bat, qu'a-t-elle \u00e0 dire au sujet du temps que ses coll\u00e8gues ont fait perdre \u00e0 d'autres comit\u00e9s?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/6/17/ryan-turnbull-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/ryan-turnbull/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4576/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13590483",
"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/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F6%2F17%2F"
}
}