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{
"time": "2006-10-23 14:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mark Holland (Ajax\u2014Pickering, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"211948\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is nearly nine years since the first introduction of a bill to modernize Canada's laws on animal cruelty. That bill has been known by seven different names. It has been reintroduced in Parliament every year since 1999.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"211949\" data-originallang=\"en\">After countless hours of debate, today we are no further ahead. Today there is no effective bill on animal cruelty before this current Parliament and we should all be embarrassed by that failure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"211950\" data-originallang=\"en\">This week I intend to change that. I will be introducing a bill that builds upon the nine years of consultation, debate and compromise that protects animals, but also recognizes their uses in agriculture, hunting and fishing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"211951\" data-originallang=\"en\">The realities of private members' business are such that I cannot pass this bill without multi-party consensus. The time is long overdue to move forward. I am calling on all members of the House to work together with me in a non-partisan spirit to finally pass effective animal cruelty legislation.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"211948\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la derni\u00e8re fois o\u00f9 un projet de loi a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 pour moderniser la l\u00e9gislation canadienne en mati\u00e8re de cruaut\u00e9 envers les animaux remonte \u00e0 presque neuf ans. Cette mesure a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9sign\u00e9e sous sept noms diff\u00e9rents. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au Parlement pour la derni\u00e8re fois en 1999.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"211949\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'innombrables heures de d\u00e9bat plus tard, nous ne sommes pas plus avanc\u00e9s. Aujourd'hui, le Parlement n'est saisi d'aucun projet de loi luttant efficacement contre la cruaut\u00e9 envers les animaux, et nous devrions tous avoir honte de cet \u00e9chec.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"211950\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette semaine, j'ai l'intention de rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 cette situation d\u00e9plorable. Je vais pr\u00e9senter un projet de loi qui table sur neuf ans de consultations, de d\u00e9bats et de compromis. Il vise \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger les animaux, mais reconna\u00eet aussi les utilisations concernant l'agriculture, la chasse et la p\u00eache.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"211951\" data-originallang=\"en\">La r\u00e9alit\u00e9 des initiatives parlementaires fait que je ne puis faire adopter ce projet de loi sans un consensus multipartite. Il est grand temps d'agir. Je demande \u00e0 tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de travailler ensemble d'une mani\u00e8re non partisane pour que soit enfin adopt\u00e9e une loi efficace sur la cruaut\u00e9 envers les animaux.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/10/23/mark-holland-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mark-holland/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1343/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1712918",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Animal Cruelty",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/10/23/",
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}