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{
"time": "2010-12-09 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Simms",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2240078\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, that is a valid point. Sometimes, as this goes by, we do not say it often enough that when the defence of the charter is coming from that side, we have to question how sincere it is.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Several of the issues that came up today, as a matter of fact, were about how some people had certain problems with the charter but yet, to be specific, we have received nothing in return. Every time we have asked for a bit of specificity that was never coming in return.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240080\" data-originallang=\"en\">I remember that issue quite well when he talked about it in 2005, about the same-sex marriage, when it was referred to the Supreme Court. There were wails from the other side talking about how it was just a bad thing to do, to get on with it, it is the will of Parliament and such. Yet we were not even allowed to explore the idea of how this was an issue of human rights in the charter.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2240078\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est une remarque judicieuse. On oublie parfois, quand ce sont ceux d'en face qui prennent le parti de la Charte, de s'interroger sur leur sinc\u00e9rit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Plusieurs des questions soulev\u00e9es aujourd'hui concernaient des probl\u00e8mes que les gens ont eus avec la Charte, mais, pour \u00eatre pr\u00e9cis, nous n'avons rien obtenu en retour. \u00c0 chaque fois que nous avons demand\u00e9 quelque chose de concret, il n'y a rien eu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2240080\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me souviens tr\u00e8s bien de la question du mariage de conjoints du m\u00eame sexe en 2005, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 renvoy\u00e9e \u00e0 la Cour supr\u00eame \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque. Ceux d'en face se sont lament\u00e9s en disant que ce n'\u00e9tait pas bien, qu'il fallait s'en occuper, que c'\u00e9tait la volont\u00e9 du Parlement, etc. Mais on ne nous a m\u00eame pas laiss\u00e9 voir dans quelle mesure c'\u00e9tait une question de droits de la personne en vertu de la Charte.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/12/9/scott-simms-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-simms/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3659639",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Charter of Rights and Freedoms",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/12/9/",
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}