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{
"time": "2007-05-03 09:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Chair (Mr. Art Hanger (Calgary Northeast, CPC))",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"621652\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to call the meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to order. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621653\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is Thursday, May 3, and our orders of the day deal with Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2304866\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-23/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal procedure, language of the accused, sentencing and other amendments)\">C-23, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal procedure, language of the accused, sentencing and other amendments)</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621654\" data-originallang=\"en\">Again, I will apologize directly to our witnesses for my late appearance, as well as Mr. Comartin's. We were listening to a very riveting story at the national prayer breakfast, and we didn't want to leave before we could get the total gist of it. But I do apologize for making everyone wait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621655\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have, from the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, Mr. Graham Fraser, Commissioner; and Johane Tremblay, director of the legal affairs branch. From the Federation of Associations of French-speaking Jurists of Common Law, we have Louise Aucoin as well as Madame C\u00f4t\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621656\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you all for being here. We will proceed along the order in which the witnesses are noted on the agenda, beginning with Mr. Fraser.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"621652\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je d\u00e9clare ouverte cette s\u00e9ance du Comit\u00e9 permanent de la justice et des droits de la personne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621653\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce jeudi 3 mai, nous avons \u00e0 l'ordre du jour le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2304866\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-23/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal procedure, language of the accused, sentencing and other amendments)\">C-23, Loi modifiant le Code criminel (proc\u00e9dure p\u00e9nale, langue de l'accus\u00e9, d\u00e9termination de la peine et autres modifications)</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621654\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'esp\u00e8re que les t\u00e9moins voudront bien excuser mon retard, ainsi que celui de M. Comartin. Nous \u00e9tions au petit-d\u00e9jeuner-pri\u00e8re national \u00e0 \u00e9couter une histoire fascinante dont nous ne voulions pas manquer la fin. Mais je suis d\u00e9sol\u00e9 de vous avoir fait attendre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621655\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous accueillons, du Commissariat aux langues officielles, le commissaire Graham Fraser, et Johane Tremblay, directrice de la Direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des affaires juridiques. La F\u00e9d\u00e9ration des associations de juristes d'expression fran\u00e7aise de common law est repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par Louise Aucoin, ainsi que Mme C\u00f4t\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"621656\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci \u00e0 tous d'\u00eatre venus. Vous pourrez prendre la parole dans l'ordre dans lequel je vous ai pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s, en commen\u00e7ant par M. Fraser.</p>"
},
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