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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2009-06-04 15:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jack Harris",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1526814\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we have a situation where the government wants to incarcerate people for longer periods of time. This has nothing to do with prohibition, although I know the experience with prohibition was it was not successful when it came to alcohol, and it is not very successful when it comes to drugs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1526815\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That debate is a worthy to engage in, but we are talking about mandatory minimum sentences. How did the gangsters who were engaged in the alcohol trade get caught? Did they caught by Eliot Ness going around shooting up the shebeens, or did they get caught by finally taking action to get the money that Al Capone was not paying in taxes and putting him in jail for that?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1526816\" data-originallang=\"en\">Is he not aware that the people who are the real gangsters seem to manage to carry on their crimes whether they are in jail or not?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1526814\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le gouvernement souhaite incarc\u00e9rer certains individus pendant de plus longues p\u00e9riodes. Cela n'a rien \u00e0 avoir avec la prohibition, bien que l'exp\u00e9rience n'ait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s heureuse lorsque la prohibition a \u00e9t\u00e9 appliqu\u00e9e \u00e0 l'alcool et qu'elle ne soit pas tr\u00e8s heureuse non plus quand il est question de drogues.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1526815\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est un d\u00e9bat qu'il vaudrait la peine de faire, mais nous parlons ici de peines minimales obligatoires. Comment les gangsters impliqu\u00e9s dans le commerce de l'alcool se sont-ils fait prendre? Se sont-ils fait prendre par Eliot Ness qui tirait sur tout ce qui bougeait dans les d\u00e9bits de boissons clandestins, ou encore lorsqu'ils se sont enfin d\u00e9cid\u00e9s \u00e0 aller chercher les imp\u00f4ts qu'Al Capone ne payait pas et \u00e0 le jeter en prison pour cette raison?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1526816\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ne sait-il pas que les vrais gangsters semblent toujours pouvoir continuer \u00e0 commettre des actes criminels, et ce, qu'ils soient en prison ou non?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/6/4/jack-harris-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jack-harris/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1063/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2810527",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Controlled Drugs and Substances Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/6/4/",
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}
}