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{
"time": "2009-10-08 09:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Peter MacKay",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1629953\" data-originallang=\"en\"> One of the things that was done immediately was the stopping of transfers. At that time, when it first came to my attention, I was actually in the theatre on a visit to Afghanistan, and the decision was taken immediately to stop transferring prisoners until such time as further information could be garnered. I don't have that exact date, but I was there in my capacity as a minister. I'll provide that to you.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1629954\" data-originallang=\"en\">The ongoing efforts by the government at that time, as you will recall\u2014and I'm not sure if you were the defence critic or the foreign affairs critic, but I know you're back in that position and I congratulate you\u2014were to undertake improving the agreement that had been left in place by the previous government, your administration, to ensure there were greater protections for prisoners who would be taken into custody by Afghans. But let's be clear about what we're talking about here, Mr. Dosanjh. We're talking about abuse allegations by Afghans on other Afghans.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1629953\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons, entre autres, imm\u00e9diatement mis fin aux transferts. En fait, je me trouvais en Afghanistan quand l'affaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 port\u00e9e \u00e0 mon attention. Nous avons d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de suspendre le transfert des prisonniers sur-le-champ, le temps de recueillir d'autres renseignements. Je ne sais plus \u00e0 quel moment pr\u00e9cis la d\u00e9cision a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise, mais j'\u00e9tais l\u00e0 \u00e0 titre de ministre. Je vais me renseigner. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1629954\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce que le gouvernement a fait \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque, comme vous vous en souvenez \u2014 je ne sais pas si vous \u00e9tiez porte-parole en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9fense ou d'affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, mais je sais que la t\u00e2che vous a \u00e9t\u00e9 confi\u00e9e de nouveau et je vous en f\u00e9licite \u2014, c'est d'am\u00e9liorer l'entente conclue par l'ancien gouvernement, le v\u00f4tre, en vue d'am\u00e9liorer la protection accord\u00e9e aux prisonniers pris en charge par les Afghans. Mais mettons les choses au clair, monsieur Dosanjh. Il est question ici d'all\u00e9gations de mauvais traitements inflig\u00e9s par des Afghans \u00e0 d'autres Afghans.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/national-defence/40-2/32/peter-mackay-2/",
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"source_id": "2885471",
"document_url": "/committees/national-defence/40-2/32/",
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}