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{
"time": "2007-11-26 17:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Christian Ouellet (Brome\u2014Missisquoi, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"789621\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, hon. members have been talking about poverty as a cause for youth crime. I would like to ask my colleague how he sees the current role of police.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"789622\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We now have a police force that we could describe as trying to stop crimes, not prevent them. There used to be constables in the cities and police officers walking a beat. They knew everyone and were close to young people. There is something else going on now. I live in a riding that only has small towns. There were plans this year to bring in people who would play the role police officers used to play and no longer play, and that is to be close to young people to give them advice and to help them. The current government blocked all those plans. It seems to me that it is not just through legislation that the crime rate could be brought down.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"789623\" data-originallang=\"fr\">My question for the hon. member is the following. Does he think a change in attitude and a different concept of the role of police, which the government could develop, could change the attitude of many young people?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"789621\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, tout \u00e0 l'heure, on parlait de la pauvret\u00e9 comme \u00e9tant une cause de la criminalit\u00e9 chez les jeunes. J'aimerais demander \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue comment il voit le r\u00f4le actuel de la police . </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"789622\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On a maintenant une force polici\u00e8re qu'on pourrait d\u00e9crire comme en \u00e9tant une qui essaie d'arr\u00eater les crimes et non de les pr\u00e9venir. \u00c0 l'\u00e9poque, il y avait des gendarmes dans les villes et des policiers \u00e0 pied. Les gens \u00e9taient proches du monde et proches des jeunes. Actuellement, on se rend compte qu'il y a autre chose. Personnellement, je suis dans un comt\u00e9 o\u00f9 il n'y a seulement que de petites villes. Des projets \u00e9taient pr\u00e9vus cette ann\u00e9e pour avoir justement des gens qui joueraient le r\u00f4le que le police ne joue plus, soit d'\u00eatre pr\u00e8s des jeunes pour les conseiller, les aider et ainsi de suite. Or, le pr\u00e9sent gouvernement a bloqu\u00e9 tous ces projets. Il me semble ce n'est pas seulement par des lois qu'on pourrait faire diminuer la criminalit\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"789623\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je demande au d\u00e9put\u00e9 ce qui suit. Pense-t-il qu'un changement d'attitude et une conception diff\u00e9rente du r\u00f4le de la police, que le gouvernement pourrait \u00e9laborer, pourrait changer l'attitude de beaucoup de jeunes? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/11/26/christian-ouellet-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/christian-ouellet/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/529/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2221058",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Youth Criminal Justice Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/11/26/",
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}
}