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{
"time": "2016-11-23 16:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Michael Levitt (York-Centre, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4678498\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We spent a lot of time in this committee discussing the notion of gross human rights violations. I want to reflect on that a little bit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678499\" data-originallang=\"en\">In your opening remarks, you addressed using the UN and multilaterals as a more effective way of being able to gain effective sanctions with more teeth globally. You also have a background in the International Criminal Court. Can you comment more generally? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678500\" data-originallang=\"en\">We're seeing a diminishing of power in some of those institutions. Lately we've seen a number of countries step away from the ICC, or at least threaten to step away from the ICC. We're seeing problems at the UN, certainly at the Security Council level. Let's take Syria and Russia as illustrative examples. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678501\" data-originallang=\"en\">If there was agreement and we were able to work with like-minded allies through existing multilaterals, that would be an easier and potentially more effective way of not having to deal with it singularly or singularly with like-minded allies, who might have similar legislation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678502\" data-originallang=\"en\">Can you think ahead or look ahead or maybe gaze into the crystal ball a little? How do you see this happening? Are these complexities, and the withdrawal from some of the multilaterals, likely to impact this moving forward? If so, is it incumbent on countries like Canada, countries that want to be able to oppose things like gross human rights abuses, to be looking to have more informal groupings of countries that share these sorts of values and have their own domestic sanctions regimes?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4678498\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce comit\u00e9 a consacr\u00e9 beaucoup de temps \u00e0 discuter de la notion de violations flagrantes des droits de la personne. J\u2019aimerais que l\u2019on revienne un peu sur ce sujet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678499\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans votre d\u00e9claration, vous avez dit que l'ONU et les organismes multilat\u00e9raux seraient les meilleurs leviers pour imposer des sanctions efficaces et plus muscl\u00e9es \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle mondiale. Vous avez par ailleurs travaill\u00e9 \u00e0 la Cour p\u00e9nale internationale. Pouvez-vous nous donner un aper\u00e7u plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ral?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678500\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme nous pouvons le constater, le pouvoir de certaines de ces institutions est en d\u00e9clin. R\u00e9cemment, nous avons pu observer que nombre de pays ont pris leur distance de la CPI, ou du moins qu\u2019ils ont menac\u00e9 de le faire. Nous observons des probl\u00e8mes \u00e0 l'ONU, certainement au niveau du Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Prenons la Syrie et la Russie comme exemples significatifs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678501\" data-originallang=\"en\">S'il y avait un accord et que nous \u00e9tions en mesure de travailler avec des alli\u00e9s partageant la m\u00eame vision, par le biais des organismes multilat\u00e9raux existants, ce serait un moyen plus facile et possiblement plus efficace qui nous emp\u00eacherait d\u2019avoir \u00e0 agir seul, ou de fa\u00e7on unilat\u00e9rale en collaboration avec des alli\u00e9s qui partagent la m\u00eame vision, et qui pourraient avoir une loi semblable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4678502\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pouvez-vous imaginer l\u2019avenir, ou m\u00eame consulter un peu votre boule de cristal? Comment cela se d\u00e9roulera-t-il, selon vous? Ces complications et ces pays qui se retirent du cadre multilat\u00e9ral auront-ils un impact sur ce processus? Le cas \u00e9ch\u00e9ant, est-ce qu'il incombe aux pays comme le Canada, qui d\u00e9sirent \u00eatre en mesure de s'opposer \u00e0 des choses comme les violations flagrantes des droits de la personne, d'envisager une collaboration avec des groupes de pays plus informels qui partagent ces valeurs et qui ont leurs propres r\u00e9gimes de sanctions nationaux? </p>"
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