Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-09-23 13:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Dan McTeague (Pickering\u2014Scarborough East, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2079544\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened very carefully to the hon. member's very learned comments and his obvious concerns by the charter side of this. I want to ask a very specific question dealing with the consular dimension.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079545\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the reasons transfer offender treaties were so successful is they allowed us to do diplomatically what was often impossible to do between two nations, where Canadian citizens might in fact find themselves at the whim of an arbitrary regime in which Canadian citizens may not be treated appropriately because they happen to be foreigners and where there may be questions as to whether or not justice itself was correct.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079546\" data-originallang=\"en\">Giving the discretion of the minister to choose based on the evidence adduced from another country creates a number of other concerns that are extra-judicial to our own sense of due process in this country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079547\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if the hon. member could comment on how serious this situation is. He mentioned the case of Sacha Bond who continues to be in Florida, languishing without medicines.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079548\" data-originallang=\"en\">I am wondering if the member has given any consideration to the consular dimension which is extremely important and often seen as a safety valve to ensure that Canadians mistreated abroad are, in fact, brought home as soon as possible and the threat that this legislation creates for that.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2079544\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 tr\u00e8s attentivement les observations tr\u00e8s \u00e9clair\u00e9es de mon coll\u00e8gue et les pr\u00e9occupations \u00e9videntes qu'il a exprim\u00e9es en ce qui concerne le respect de la Charte. J'aimerais poser une question bien pr\u00e9cise concernant l'aspect consulaire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079545\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le succ\u00e8s des trait\u00e9s concernant le transf\u00e8rement international des d\u00e9linquants s'explique par le fait qu'ils nous ont permis de r\u00e9aliser, par voie diplomatique, ce qui \u00e9tait souvent impossible de faire entre deux pays lorsque des citoyens canadiens se trouvent \u00e0 la merci d'un r\u00e9gime arbitraire et ne sont pas trait\u00e9s de fa\u00e7on appropri\u00e9e du fait qu'ils sont \u00e9trangers ou lorsqu'il se pourrait qu'ils aient \u00e9t\u00e9 victimes d'une erreur judiciaire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079546\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le fait que le ministre ait le pouvoir discr\u00e9tionnaire de prendre une d\u00e9cision \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des \u00e9l\u00e9ments de preuve fournis par un autre pays suscite d'autres pr\u00e9occupations d'ordre extrajudiciaire li\u00e9es \u00e0 notre point de vue sur ce qu'est l'application r\u00e9guli\u00e8re de la loi. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079547\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pourrait-il parler de la gravit\u00e9 de la situation? Il a mentionn\u00e9 le cas de Sacha Bond, qui languit toujours dans un prison en Floride sans m\u00e9dicaments. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2079548\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a song\u00e9 \u00e0 la dimension consulaire qui est extr\u00eamement importante et qui est souvent consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme une soupape de s\u00fbret\u00e9 pour s'assurer que les Canadiens trait\u00e9s injustement \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger soient rapatri\u00e9s au Canada d\u00e8s que possible et s'il est d'avis que ce projet de loi met en p\u00e9ril cette possibilit\u00e9. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/9/23/dan-mcteague-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/dan-mcteague/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1414/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3284710",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "International Transfer of Offenders Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/9/23/",
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    }
}