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{
"time": "2009-10-22 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Gordon Brown",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1638590\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I know how passionate the hon. member for <a data-HoCid=\"128438\" href=\"/politicians/dave-mackenzie/\" title=\"Dave MacKenzie\">Oxford</a> is for standing up for victims. He was in law enforcement for a long time. I had the pleasure of sitting on the public safety and national security committee with him in the last Parliament and saw first-hand his passion in standing up for victims, having, I am sure, investigated many of those types of cases over the years.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1638591\" data-originallang=\"en\">As I said in my presentation, the bill does take into account victim and community impact statements and they will be taken into account when a judge makes a decision. We know that the mandatory prison sentence in the bill is to ensure that those who commit those crimes will go to jail. I really do believe that if criminals know they will do the time, they may not do the crime. However, I think the message really is that if they do the crime, they will do the time.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1638590\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je sais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'<a data-HoCid=\"128438\" href=\"/politicians/dave-mackenzie/\" title=\"Dave MacKenzie\">Oxford</a> d\u00e9fend farouchement les victimes d'actes criminels. Il a travaill\u00e9 dans le domaine de l'application de la loi pendant longtemps. J'ai eu le plaisir de si\u00e9ger \u00e0 ses c\u00f4t\u00e9s au Comit\u00e9 de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique et nationale lors de la derni\u00e8re l\u00e9gislature et j'ai constat\u00e9 qu'il \u00e9tait un ardent d\u00e9fenseur des victimes d'actes criminels, sans doute parce qu'il a men\u00e9 bien des enqu\u00eates dans ce genre d'affaires au fil des ans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1638591\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je l'ai dit dans ma pr\u00e9sentation, le projet de loi pr\u00e9voit les d\u00e9clarations des victimes et les d\u00e9clarations sur les r\u00e9percussions au sein des collectivit\u00e9s et les juges prendront ces d\u00e9clarations en compte au moment de prendre une d\u00e9cision. La peine minimale que pr\u00e9voit le projet de loi vise \u00e0 assurer que les auteurs de ces crimes purgeront leur peine. Selon moi, le fait de savoir qu'ils purgeront leur peine pourrait dissuader les criminels de commettre un crime. Le message est clair: les criminels qui commentent un crime purgeront la peine assortie \u00e0 ce crime.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/10/22/gord-brown-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-brown/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1383/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2908561",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Retribution on Behalf of Victims of White Collar Crime Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/10/22/",
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}
}