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{
"time": "2007-05-03 16:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Dennis Bevington (Western Arctic, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"590053\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that the crux of the matter in the bill lies with the perceived need to ensure that children, young people between the age of 14 and 16, are not interfered in other ways other than the criminal ways that are already covered under the act. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590054\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we are doing is making a decision about the nature of exploitation that is above criminality. I think that is the key to this discussion. We are saying that under our Criminal Code there is exploitation of young people between the age of 14 and 16 that is not criminalized now and needs to be criminalized.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590055\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we have done, with very broad strokes, is to say that every relationship is criminal because obviously we have missed some in the way we are judging society now.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590056\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would ask my hon. colleague to comment on the kinds of behaviours that he sees as being exploitative now and that should be criminalized, which make the fundamental point within the bill? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"590053\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il me semble que le fondement du projet de loi est le besoin per\u00e7u de s'assurer que les enfants, les jeunes gens \u00e2g\u00e9s de 14 \u00e0 16 ans, ne sont pas victimes d'autres pr\u00e9judices que les actes criminels d\u00e9j\u00e0 vis\u00e9s par la loi. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590054\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous nous trouvons en ce moment \u00e0 prendre une d\u00e9cision sur la nature d'une exploitation qui est au-dessus de la criminalit\u00e9. C'est l\u00e0, je crois, la cl\u00e9 de la discussion. Nous disons qu'en vertu du Code criminel, il existe une forme d'exploitation des jeunes \u00e2g\u00e9s de 14 \u00e0 16 ans qui n'est pour l'instant pas criminalis\u00e9e et qui doit le devenir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590055\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce que nous avons fait, de fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s large, c'est affirmer que chaque relation est criminelle parce que nous en avons de toute \u00e9vidence rat\u00e9 quelques-unes dans la fa\u00e7on dont nous jugeons actuellement la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590056\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais conna\u00eetre l'opinion du d\u00e9put\u00e9 au sujet des types de comportements qu'il consid\u00e8re \u00eatre de l'exploitation et qui devraient \u00eatre criminalis\u00e9s, ce qui constitue le fondement du projet de loi?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/3/dennis-bevington-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dennis-bevington/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/339/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2056522",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/5/3/",
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}