Re: Finding the nation question

Posted by Robin Millette on Dec 12, 2006; 10:14pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Finding-the-nation-question-tp769p782.html

On 12/10/06, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
> A friend in India wanted to know the official wording of the latest
> quebec nation question!
>
> Well an hour later i found the official wording! That was hard friggin'
> work! There has got to be an easier way to find these things!

Since december 1st, the hansard is equipped with a nice (and indexed)
search engine:

Here I was checking the index keywords beginning with "Q"
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberPublicationBrowse.aspx?retDateFrom=&retDateTo=&retSourceDebates=1&retSourceCommitteeEvidence=0&retCommitteeAcronymList=&ClassSubject=1&ClassPerson=1&ClassOrganization=1&ClassConstituency=1&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&Terms=Q&TermPath=&ALTID=

... to find "Québécois nation":
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberPublicationBrowse.aspx?retDateFrom=&retDateTo=&retSourceDebates=1&retSourceCommitteeEvidence=0&retCommitteeAcronymList=&ClassSubject=1&ClassPerson=1&ClassOrganization=1&ClassConstituency=1&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&Terms=&TermPath=Q&ALTID=64467

... which in all honesty is a dead end...

But I knew to search for "Québécois nation" because on my first
attempt with the search engine I didn't use the index (which is
probably powerful, I just didn't spend much time exploring it) but the
keyword search:

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/ChamberPublicationIndexSearch.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1

There, I just put the term "quebec nation" and hit the jackpot. You'll
also see on the right side a bunch of search strings that aggregate
results.

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