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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2009-06-03 19:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Carolyn Bennett",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1523612\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the hon. member has tried to change the channel in terms of the enemy being drug trafficking instead of what is a health issue around a comprehensive drug policy. In fact, there is a consensus around the world. There are four pillars in a comprehensive drug policy, prevention, treatment, enforcement and harm reduction, which the hon. member clearly has left out.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1523613\" data-originallang=\"en\">On the issue of drug trafficking, I cannot help but remind the hon. member of the government's failure to deal with cigarette smuggling by exactly the same people who are smuggling drugs and guns. Since the government has been elected, cigarette smuggling in the country has doubled, a 100% increase in the amount of cigarette smuggling by exactly the same people that this flawed approach of the government has implemented.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1523612\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 essaie de changer le sujet en parlant du trafic de stup\u00e9fiants qu'il consid\u00e8re comme l'ennemi plut\u00f4t que de parler de ce qui constitue une question de sant\u00e9, soit une politique compl\u00e8te en mati\u00e8re de drogues. D'ailleurs, partout dans le monde, on s'entend pour dire qu'une politique compl\u00e8te en mati\u00e8re de drogues repose sur quatre piliers: la pr\u00e9vention, le traitement, l'application de la loi et la r\u00e9duction des m\u00e9faits, ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a de toute \u00e9vidence oubli\u00e9 de mentionner.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1523613\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne le trafic de stup\u00e9fiants, je ne peux m'emp\u00eacher de rappeler au d\u00e9put\u00e9 que son gouvernement n'a pas r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 r\u00e9gler le probl\u00e8me de la contrebande de cigarettes \u00e0 laquelle se livrent les m\u00eames individus qui introduisent ill\u00e9galement de la drogue et des armes au pays. Depuis que ce gouvernement est au pouvoir, la contrebande de cigarettes a doubl\u00e9. En raison de l'approche d\u00e9faillante du gouvernement, ces m\u00eames individus introduisent ill\u00e9galement deux fois plus de cigarettes. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/6/3/carolyn-bennett-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/carolyn-bennett/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2631/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2806371",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Narcotic Drug Control",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/6/3/",
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}
}