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{
"time": "2007-05-03 17:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Thierry St-Cyr (Jeanne-Le Ber, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"590105\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I reviewed <em>Hansard</em>, our proceedings and our votes and I was a bit saddened to see that last week, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78377\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">Nepean\u2014Carleton</a> voted against the bill aimed at regulating violence on television.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590106\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I wondered how one could claim to want to defend and protect children but nonetheless accept that there is so much violence on television. Furthermore that violence is shown during prime time, when many very young children whose behaviour and personality are developing can watch this kind of program, which goes unregulated by the CRTC. I find it rather paradoxical.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590107\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We notice that Conservatives\u2014and that is also true for the member\u2014spend much energy representing themselves as a tough on crime government. They are tough on crime once it has been committed instead of preventing it. I would invite the member to do a survey in his riding and to ask his voters if they think that it is better to punish criminals or to prevent crimes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590108\" data-originallang=\"fr\">For this Conservative government, prevention is a wasteland. We know that it continues to oppose maintaining the full gun registry. The majority of Conservative members voted against the bill to reduce violence on television. We know that there are countless crime prevention programs. Community groups and groups working in our ridings are waiting for the grants blocked by the federal government. These programs have already been approved by joint federal-provincial committees. They only require the signature of the <a data-HoCid=\"78755\" href=\"/politicians/stockwell-day/\" title=\"Stockwell Day\">Minister of Public Safety</a>; the programs are still not in place.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590109\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In the end, they are being hypocritical and doing nothing. They block initiatives to prevent crime and then say that they will pass legislation so that individuals spend more time in prison.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590110\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It changes nothing for victims of crime if their attackers or those who commit these crimes spend more time in jail. This does not remove the pain of what they had to endure and it does not make amends for the crime.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590111\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In my opinion, the Conservatives are guilty of gross hypocrisy. The member who voted against the bill of my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"78641\" href=\"/politicians/bernard-bigras/\" title=\"Bernard Bigras\">Rosemont\u2014La Petite-Patrie</a> has a double standard in this matter.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"590105\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis retourn\u00e9 consulter le hansard, et le contenu de nos d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations et de nos votes. J'\u00e9tais un peu constern\u00e9 de constater que la semaine derni\u00e8re, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78377\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">Nepean\u2014Carleton</a> a vot\u00e9 contre le projet de loi qui visait \u00e0 r\u00e9glementer et \u00e0 encadrer la violence \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590106\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je me suis demand\u00e9 comment on pouvait pr\u00e9tendre vouloir d\u00e9fendre et prot\u00e9ger les enfants, et accepter, en m\u00eame temps, qu'il y ait autant de violence \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision. Cette violence est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e, de surcro\u00eet, durant les heures de grande \u00e9coute, durant les heures o\u00f9 de tr\u00e8s jeunes enfants, dont le comportement et la personnalit\u00e9 sont en plein d\u00e9veloppement, peuvent regarder ce genre d'\u00e9mission alors qu'aucun contr\u00f4le n'est fait par le CRTC. Cela me semble plut\u00f4t paradoxal. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590107\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On constate chez les conservateurs \u2014 et c'est vrai pour ce d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u2014 que beaucoup d'efforts sont mis pour projeter l'image d'un gouvernement <em>tough on crime</em>. Ils s'attaquent au crime apr\u00e8s qu'il ait \u00e9t\u00e9 commis au lieu de le pr\u00e9venir. J'inviterais le d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 faire un sondage dans son comt\u00e9 et \u00e0 demander aux gens s'ils pensent qu'il vaut mieux punir les gens apr\u00e8s qu'ils aient commis des crimes ou pr\u00e9venir ces crimes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590108\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La pr\u00e9vention, chez ce gouvernement conservateur, est un grand d\u00e9sert. On sait qu'il s'oppose toujours au maintien int\u00e9gral du registre des armes \u00e0 feu. On a constat\u00e9 que la majorit\u00e9 des d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs ont vot\u00e9 contre le projet de loi visant \u00e0 r\u00e9duire la violence \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision. On sait qu'il y a d'innombrables programmes de pr\u00e9vention de la criminalit\u00e9. Des groupes communautaires et des groupes pr\u00e9sents dans nos comt\u00e9s attendent les subventions bloqu\u00e9es du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. Or ces programmes ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 accept\u00e9s par des comit\u00e9s paritaires avec les provinces. Ils n'attendent que la signature du <a data-HoCid=\"78755\" href=\"/politicians/stockwell-day/\" title=\"Stockwell Day\">ministre de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique</a> et les programmes ne sont toujours pas en place. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590109\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Finalement, il s'agit d'un discours tout \u00e0 fait hypocrite o\u00f9 l'on ne fait rien. On bloque les initiatives qui pr\u00e9viennent la criminalit\u00e9, et on dit ensuite qu'on fera des lois pour que les gens soient en prison plus longtemps. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590110\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pour les personnes victimes de crimes, cela ne change rien que leurs agresseurs ou les gens ayant commis ces crimes soient en prison plus longtemps. Cela n'enl\u00e8ve pas l'odieux de ce qu'ils ont d\u00fb vivre et cela ne r\u00e9pare pas le crime. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"590111\" data-originallang=\"fr\">\u00c0 mon avis, les conservateurs font preuve d'une hypocrisie flagrante. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 qui a vot\u00e9 contre le projet de loi de mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"78641\" href=\"/politicians/bernard-bigras/\" title=\"Bernard Bigras\">Rosemont\u2014La Petite-Patrie</a> semble utiliser un double langage dans ce dossier.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/3/thierry-st-cyr-2/",
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"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": ""
},
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