Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2011-09-26 12:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jack Harris",
        "fr": "M. Jack Harris"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2474623\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, what we heard from our officials and the general was that what was left of Gadhafi's forces was an eroding defensive position and that there was still some potential. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2474624\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think the question is really whether it is the role of Canada to participate in the civil war to the extent of ensuring that one side wins. That is really the danger that we are saying exists.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2474625\" data-originallang=\"en\">If Colonel Gadhafi's forces are no longer in a position to act in an aggressive manner and to carry out whatever threats they may have made in the past, the military threats, as General Vance said, are small. There are some, but they are small. As to the fact that there is a potential, anyone with a gun has the potential to do harm, but that is not what we are dealing with here. We are dealing with the question of what Canada should do now, over the next three months. Should it carry on this mission as a military one or should it focus its attention on what we have suggested here?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2474623\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ce que le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et d'autres autorit\u00e9s canadiennes ont dit, c'est que les d\u00e9fenses de Kadhafi sont de plus en plus faibles, m\u00eame si celui-ci a encore un certain potentiel militaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2474624\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce qu'il faut vraiment se demander, \u00e0 mon avis, c'est s'il revient au Canada de participer \u00e0 la guerre civile de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 assurer la victoire d'une des parties. C'est l\u00e0 le danger que nous voulons signaler.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2474625\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si les forces du colonel Kadhafi ne sont plus en mesure de passer \u00e0 l'offensive et de mettre \u00e0 ex\u00e9cution les menaces qu'elles auraient prof\u00e9r\u00e9es par le pass\u00e9, la menace r\u00e9elle sur la plan militaire, comme l'a affirm\u00e9 le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Vance, est plut\u00f4t minime. Elle existe, mais elle est minime. Pour ce qui est du potentiel, quiconque d\u00e9tient une arme \u00e0 feu a le potentiel de causer du tort, mais l\u00e0 n'est pas la question. La question, c'est de savoir ce que le Canada devrait faire, maintenant et pendant les trois prochains mois. Devrait-il poursuivre son r\u00f4le militaire ou plut\u00f4t se concentrer sur ce que nous avons propos\u00e9?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2011/9/26/jack-harris-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jack-harris/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1063/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "4284680",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Libya",
        "fr": "La Libye"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2011/9/26/",
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}