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{
"time": "2013-03-20 16:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Irwin Cotler",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3262601\" data-originallang=\"en\">It's because of my respect for you. I mean that candidly. We've worked closely together.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3262602\" data-originallang=\"en\">Something you just mentioned prompted this question, which is on the whole question of mutual legal assistance. It happens that yesterday I met with an ambassador who was indicating to me that he was hoping to have a mutual legal assistance treaty with his country and so far it has not been authorized. My own sense is that it probably wouldn't make sense to do that, but I'll leave that out, but only because a larger issue that he mentioned was that there seems to have been a freeze on the whole approach to mutual legal assistance agreements.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3262603\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think these mutual legal assistance agreements have always been helpful, in my view, with regard to the pursuit of international justice, generally speaking. Have we frozen our approach on that?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3262601\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est en raison du respect que j'ai pour vous. Je vous le dis en toute franchise. Nous avons travaill\u00e9 en \u00e9troite collaboration.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3262602\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est quelque chose que vous avez mentionn\u00e9 qui m'a inspir\u00e9 cette question; elle porte sur l'entraide juridique. Il s'av\u00e8re qu'hier, j'ai rencontr\u00e9 un ambassadeur qui m'a dit esp\u00e9rer qu'il y ait un trait\u00e9 d'entraide juridique avec son pays, et jusqu'ici, cela n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 autoris\u00e9. \u00c0 mon avis, il ne serait probablement pas logique de le faire; quoi qu'il en soit, c'est seulement parce qu'il a parl\u00e9 d'une question plus vaste, \u00e0 savoir qu'il semble y avoir un gel sur le plan des trait\u00e9s d'entraide juridique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3262603\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense que ces trait\u00e9s ont toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 utiles, \u00e0 mon sens, en ce qui a trait \u00e0 la qu\u00eate de justice internationale, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Avons-nous impos\u00e9 un gel \u00e0 ce chapitre?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/justice/41-1/65/irwin-cotler-10/",
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"source_id": "7938002",
"document_url": "/committees/justice/41-1/65/",
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