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{
"time": "2006-06-12 14:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Tom Wappel (Scarborough Southwest, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"22679\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Toronto newspapers recently reported on the case of Leslie Hoogland, a former Toronto high school teacher, who was convicted of possession of over 2,000 pornographic pictures of Toronto area under-age boys. He had also hired child prostitutes in the Toronto area.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"22680\" data-originallang=\"en\">For these heinous crimes against children, Madame Justice Faye McWatt gave him a two year conditional sentence, including one year of house arrest. How does a sentence like this send a message of denunciation and deterrence? It does not. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"22681\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is sentences like this, for crimes against children, which cry out for reform of conditional sentencing. Bill C-9 would address these irresponsible sentences imposed by judges since we cannot count on them to self-regulate their use of conditional sentences. Passage of Bill C-9 cannot come soon enough for the exploited children of Canada and the world.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"22679\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les journaux de Toronto ont r\u00e9cemment rapport\u00e9 le cas de Leslie Hoogland, ancien enseignant au niveau secondaire qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu coupable de possession de plus de 2 000 images pornographiques de gar\u00e7ons de la r\u00e9gion torontoise. Il a aussi fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 des prostitu\u00e9s enfants dans la r\u00e9gion de Toronto.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"22680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour ces crimes odieux contre des enfants, madame le juge Faye McWatt lui a impos\u00e9 une peine de deux ans dont un an de d\u00e9tention \u00e0 domicile. En quoi une telle peine est-elle exemplaire et dissuasive?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"22681\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce sont des peines comme celle-l\u00e0 impos\u00e9es aux auteurs de crimes contre des enfants qui illustrent la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de r\u00e9former le r\u00e9gime des peines d'emprisonnement avec sursis. Le projet de loi C-9 emp\u00eacherait les juges d'imposer des peines irresponsables puisque nous ne pouvons pas compter sur eux pour mod\u00e9rer leur recours aux peines d'emprisonnement avec sursis. Le plus t\u00f4t le projet de loi C-9 sera adopt\u00e9, le mieux ce sera pour les enfants du Canada et du monde.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/6/12/tom-wappel-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/299/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2625/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1586855",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/6/12/",
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}