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Luc Thériault

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
Bloc Québécois

Montcalm
Quebec
Voting Attendance: 65%
Expenses Last Quarter: $126,025.95

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Context: House Hansard - 280 - Feb/12/24

Feb/12/24 1:52:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to talk about how the work is organized. In Quebec City, parliamentary committees are rigorously organized. Witnesses are not invited for just five minutes of speeches with three or four other panellists at a meeting where sometimes there are not even any questions because the witnesses are of no interest to the party in question. Expert witnesses appear at these hearings, and each witness gets 50 minutes. It is altogether different. Here in Ottawa, the methodology is inadequate and we are not doing a good job. This needs to be fixed.

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Context: House Hansard - 270 - Jan/29/24

Mr. Luc Thériault

Jan/29/24 3:15:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, next time I will make it a proper question of privilege, as I have previously done in the House. I am sorry to have to say this, Mr. Speaker, but before the holidays, you unfortunately did not have control of the House, and that interfered with my parliamentary privilege to hear questions and answers during question period. What is more, it also infringed on my right to have and preserve healthy hearing. Again today, I am of the opinion that you have lost control of the House. I could hear neither the questions nor the answers unless I turned the volume up to a level that affected the health of my hearing. I would ask you to resolve the problem quickly, because it is my right to be able to understand what is going on in question period without risking damaging my hearing.

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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22

Mr. Luc Thériault

Dec/7/22 4:10:50 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Mr. Speaker, here is the problem. The sound is good when there are people in the booths here in the House. The booths in the House are properly equipped for sound. Every time we have an interpreter working remotely outside the House, the sound is bad, and it can damage our hearing. I demand, as a member of House, that my hearing not be jeopardized. Let us fix the problem once and for all.

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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22

Mr. Luc Thériault

Dec/7/22 4:09:26 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-32

Mr. Speaker, I do not want to miss anything my eloquent colleague says, but I have had to adjust my earpiece to the maximum volume. There is no one in the interpretation booths, and the sound is bad. When a different interpreter comes in, I can hear my colleague as if he were speaking directly into my ear. It is unacceptable that we are unable to fix our interpretation and sound problems. This is not the first time I rise to mention this. I do not know why there is no one in the booths, but I know that the interpretation system right now is inadequate. I will not be damaging my hearing and I want to be able to hear my colleague, who I like listening to, incidentally, even if I do not always agree with him. I would like—

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