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{
    "time": "2010-11-22 16:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. John Hutton",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2206495\" data-originallang=\"en\">I guess the point is that you're bringing up legislation that's already been passed, <a data-HoCid=\"4640457\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-23A/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Records Act \">Bill C-23A</a>. If I were in front of this committee in June--I didn't have that opportunity--I would have said that I didn't think any changes were necessary, that it's bad policy to change law based on the most heinous example. But those changes were made. Those changes were made to deal with Karla Homolka and Graham James, for better or for worse.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2206495\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suppose que vous parlez des mesures l\u00e9gislatives qui ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9es, du <a data-HoCid=\"4640457\" href=\"/bills/40-3/C-23A/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Records Act \">projet de loi C-23A</a>. Si j'avais comparu devant le comit\u00e9 en juin \u2014 je n'en ai pas eu l'occasion \u2014, j'aurais dit qu'\u00e0 mon avis, aucune modification n'\u00e9tait n\u00e9cessaire, qu'il est mauvais de modifier une loi en se fondant sur les exemples les plus abominables. Mais ces modifications ont \u00e9t\u00e9 apport\u00e9es. Elles ont \u00e9t\u00e9 apport\u00e9es pour r\u00e9gler les affaires de Karla Homolka et de Graham James, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/public-safety/40-3/41/john-hutton-9/",
    "politician_url": null,
    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3553710",
    "document_url": "/committees/public-safety/40-3/41/",
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}