Speech (House debate)

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{
    "time": "1999-04-15 16:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bernard Bigras (Rosemont, BQ)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Madam Speaker, I am still very surprised to hear such a hard-line speech about young people in this place, and I am particularly surprised by our colleague's definition of prevention.</p>\n<p>He seems to view prevention as an activity that only comes into play after the offence.</p>\n<p>I find this rather surprising, because he talks to us about lists, as though young people should be stigmatized. This is unacceptable.</p>\n<p>We have always seen prevention as coming before the offence. For there to be prevention, there has to be education, guidance and resources in our schools, often at the time when young people are having difficulty.</p>\n<p>I would like to ask my Reform Party colleague what he means by the term prevention, which he has used repeatedly in his speech.</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/1999/4/15/bernard-bigras-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bernard-bigras/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2715/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Youth Criminal Justice Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/1999/4/15/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1999%2F4%2F15%2F"
    }
}