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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2007-03-23 12:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Thierry St-Cyr",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"511432\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the question was not as quick as the member said it would be, but I will try to provide a quick answer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"511433\" data-originallang=\"fr\">There is no reason to believe that extending current cases where there is reverse onus is justified. Basically, in our justice system, we believe in the presumption of innocence. This is the basic premise. In certain cases, the onus that is already provided in the law is reversed, but before extending it, we want to have the demonstration that this is necessary. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"511434\" data-originallang=\"fr\">However, this government has never provided this. No studies support it. This is just an assumption among others, and we are opposed to sacrificing principles of natural justice for an opinion that has no justification. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"511432\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la question n'\u00e9tait finalement pas aussi br\u00e8ve qu'annonc\u00e9e, mais je vais essayer de fournir une r\u00e9ponse courte. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"511433\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il n'y a pas de raisons de croire que d'\u00e9tendre les cas actuels o\u00f9 il y a un renversement du fardeau de la preuve est justifi\u00e9. \u00c0 la base, dans notre syst\u00e8me judiciaire, on croit \u00e0 la pr\u00e9somption d'innocence. C'est la pr\u00e9misse de base. Dans certains cas, on renverse le fardeau de la preuve qui existe d\u00e9j\u00e0 dans la loi, mais avant d'en rajouter dans la loi, on veut qu'on nous fasse la d\u00e9monstration que c'est n\u00e9cessaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"511434\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Or, ce gouvernement n'a jamais fait la d\u00e9monstration, il n'a jamais fait cela, il n'y a aucune \u00e9tude qui soutienne cela. Ce n'est qu'une hypoth\u00e8se parmi d'autres, et nous ne sommes pas d'accord de sacrifier les principes de justice naturelle en vertu d'une opinion qui n'a aucun fondement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/3/23/thierry-st-cyr-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/thierry-st-cyr/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/576/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1976347",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/3/23/",
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}
}