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{
    "time": "2010-12-13 17:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Maloway",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2251269\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will attempt to address that rambling, disjointed question in a moment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2251270\" data-originallang=\"en\">The hon. member wants to talk about arming border guards. Just yesterday we had a Liberal member on the Roy Green radio show across Canada talking about how the government has spent $90,000 to train each border guard on how to use weapons. That did not even account for all the excessive cost involved in hotels. That was just the beginning, $90,000 per border guard.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2251271\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member may not know this, but in the last five or six years since the border guards have been armed, evidently there has been only one occasion when the border guards had to use the guns, which was a moose, I believe. They had to shoot a moose that was sick.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2251272\" data-originallang=\"en\">That is the government's idea of getting smart on crime. The Conservatives are the smart guys on crime. This is a government that in 1979 started sending pension cheques to prisoners in federal prisons.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2251269\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tenterai de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 cette question d\u00e9cousue dans un instant. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2251270\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 veut parler du fait que les gardes-fronti\u00e8re sont arm\u00e9s. Pas plus tard qu'hier, un d\u00e9put\u00e9 lib\u00e9ral qui participait \u00e0 l'\u00e9mission de radio de Roy Green, qui est diffus\u00e9e d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du Canada, se plaignait du fait que le gouvernement ait d\u00e9pens\u00e9 90 000 $ par personne pour former les gardes-fronti\u00e8re au maniement d'armes \u00e0 feu, somme qui ne tient m\u00eame pas compte de tous les co\u00fbts excessifs de location dans des h\u00f4tels. Ces 90 000 $ par personne ne repr\u00e9sentaient qu'un d\u00e9but.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2251271\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 l'ignore peut-\u00eatre, mais depuis les cinq ou six ans que les gardes-fronti\u00e8re sont arm\u00e9s, il n'est \u00e9videmment arriv\u00e9 qu'une seule fois qu'ils doivent utiliser leurs armes, et ce, contre un orignal, si je ne m'abuse. Ils ont d\u00fb abattre un orignal malade.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2251272\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est ainsi que le gouvernement con\u00e7oit l'id\u00e9e de lutter intelligemment contre la criminalit\u00e9. Les conservateurs sont des sommit\u00e9s dans le domaine. Ils forment le gouvernement qui, en 1979, a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 envoyer des ch\u00e8ques de pension aux d\u00e9tenus des p\u00e9nitenciers f\u00e9d\u00e9raux. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/12/13/jim-maloway-14/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jim-maloway/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1111/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3672147",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Royal Canadian Mounted Police Modernization Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/12/13/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2010%2F12%2F13%2F"
    }
}