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{
"time": "2009-06-04 15:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jack Harris",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1526819\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I think the answer is pretty clear. I do not think we need to speculate. It is clear and the evidence is clear. Even the Department of Justice, up until the current government came to power, was clearly on the record as saying that there was no evidence to support mandatory minimum sentences for drug use and that it would not work. There was no measurable effect on either drug consumption or drug-related crimes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1526820\" data-originallang=\"en\">The obvious reason is the one we hear all the time from the <a data-HoCid=\"105824\" href=\"/politicians/rob-nicholson/\" title=\"Rob Nicholson\">Minister of Justice</a>. Every time he talks about being tough on crime, he is actually talking about being tough on criminals. He never talks about that without, in the same sentence, saying that the Conservatives are tough on crime and the other parties are not. That is the real reason they are doing it. It is all about politics and optics, not about reality.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1526819\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je crois que la r\u00e9ponse est assez claire. Je ne pense pas qu'il soit n\u00e9cessaire de sp\u00e9culer. La situation est claire. Avant que les conservateurs n'arrivent au pouvoir, le minist\u00e8re de la Justice d\u00e9clarait clairement qu'aucun \u00e9l\u00e9ment de preuve ne justifiait l'imposition de peines minimales obligatoires aux consommateurs de drogue et que ces peines ne donneraient aucun r\u00e9sultat. Elles n'ont aucun effet mesurable sur la consommation de drogue ni sur les crimes li\u00e9s \u00e0 la drogue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1526820\" data-originallang=\"en\">La raison de la mesure, c'est celle que nous ressert constamment le <a data-HoCid=\"105824\" href=\"/politicians/rob-nicholson/\" title=\"Rob Nicholson\">ministre de la Justice</a>. Chaque fois qu'il dit qu'il veut \u00eatre ferme envers le crime, il parle en fait de fermet\u00e9 envers les criminels. Il ne parle jamais de ces questions sans ajouter du m\u00eame souffle que les conservateurs sont fermes envers le crime tandis que les autres ne le sont pas. C'est la raison pour laquelle ils font cela. Il s'agit de politique et de point de vue, pas de mesures fond\u00e9es sur la r\u00e9alit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/6/4/jack-harris-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jack-harris/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1063/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2810537",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Controlled Drugs and Substances Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/6/4/",
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}
}