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{
"time": "2007-11-01 14:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"763203\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it has been the long-standing policy of our country, reaffirmed by Foreign Affairs as recently as last Friday, that \u201cthere is no death penalty in Canada and the government of Canada does not support the death penalty\u201d and that it will \u201cseek clemency for Canadians sentenced to death in foreign countries\u201d. Yet the government has now reversed this policy in not seeking clemency for Alberta-born Ronald Allen Smith, the only Canadian on death row in the United States.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763204\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the government reaffirm our long-standing policy restated last Friday and seek the commutation of a Canadian citizen?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"763203\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y a dans notre pays une politique de longue date, qu'a r\u00e9affirm\u00e9e le minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, pas plus tard que vendredi dernier. Selon cette politique, la peine de mort n'existe pas au Canada, le gouvernement du Canada n'appuie pas la peine de mort et il demandera la cl\u00e9mence pour les Canadiens condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 mort \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger. Pourtant, le gouvernement vient de renverser cette politique en ne demandant pas la cl\u00e9mence pour l'Albertain Ronald Allen Smith, le seul Canadien condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 mort aux \u00c9tats-Unis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"763204\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement va-t-il r\u00e9affirmer notre politique de longue date qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9it\u00e9r\u00e9e vendredi dernier et demander la commutation de la peine de ce citoyen canadien? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/11/1/irwin-cotler-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/irwin-cotler/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3673/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2186782",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/11/1/",
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}