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{
"time": "2010-10-07 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pierre Paquette (Joliette, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2094227\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the following is an excerpt from a column written by Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque the day after the death of Pierre Laporte on October 17, 1970:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2094228\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> The death of Pierre Laporte has devastated us all. This waste of a life is barbaric and atrocious.... We cannot imagine the distress his family members have experienced this past week, and the kind of pain they are feeling now.... They can be assured that all of Quebec shares in their grief.... Now, we must all do our best to erase this stain as quickly as possible.... It will be to Quebec's credit to draw from this ordeal a thirst for real progress so that we can eliminate any excuses for active or would-be terrorists, which we unfortunately have just as many of as any civilized society.... We must be strong in speaking out against what happened; we must take responsibility, but refuse to get caught up in the games of those who may try to use this situation to control us. </p>\n</blockquote>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2094227\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, voici un extrait d'une chronique qu'\u00e9crivait Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque au lendemain de la mort de Pierre Laporte, le 17 octobre 1970:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"2094228\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> La mort de Pierre Laporte nous a tous atterr\u00e9s. C'est tellement barbare, ce gaspillage atroce d'une vie [...]. Nous pouvons \u00e0 peine imaginer ce qu'a d\u00fb \u00eatre l'angoisse des membres de sa famille depuis une semaine, et ce que peut \u00eatre leur douleur maintenant [...]. Ils peuvent \u00eatre s\u00fbrs que tout le Qu\u00e9bec partage leur deuil. [...] Il va donc nous falloir, tous ensemble, laver cette tache de notre mieux et le plus vite possible. [...] Ce sera l'honneur du Qu\u00e9bec de tirer de cette \u00e9preuve une soif de vrai progr\u00e8s qui enl\u00e8ve jusqu'au moindre pr\u00e9texte aux terroristes actifs ou en puissance dont nous avons la m\u00eame fraction, h\u00e9las, que toute soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civilis\u00e9e. [..] Nous devons d\u00e9plorer am\u00e8rement ce qui s'est produit, en assumer la responsabilit\u00e9 qui nous incombe \u00e0 tous, mais refuser absolument d'entrer dans le jeu de ceux qui auraient la tentation de profiter de ce climat pour nous asservir. </p>\n</blockquote>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/10/7/pierre-paquette-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-paquette/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1781/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3354064",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "October Crisis",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/10/7/",
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}