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{
"time": "2012-12-11 16:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Geoff Regan (Halifax West, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. Geoff Regan (Halifax-Ouest, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3147629\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to refer to the comment by the previous Conservative speaker, who had a question for my hon. colleague from the NDP, because I do not think he understands how our legislative process works. When a new law is passed it overwrites or supercedes previous laws, unless we are talking about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the Constitution. We cannot change those without a much more elaborate process. However, when we have a new law with new provisions, in this case creating real doubt about what happens when a person cannot pay his or her debt, we do have a new problem.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3147630\" data-originallang=\"en\">He perhaps does not understand that the Criminal Code is simply previous legislation, and it can be changed by any bill that comes into the House and is passed. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3147629\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais revenir sur les propos du d\u00e9put\u00e9 conservateur qui m'a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 et qui a pos\u00e9 une question \u00e0 la d\u00e9put\u00e9e n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate, car je ne crois pas qu'il saisisse le fonctionnement du processus l\u00e9gislatif. Toute nouvelle loi supplante les lois adopt\u00e9es ant\u00e9rieurement ou a pr\u00e9s\u00e9ance sur celles-ci, \u00e0 l'exception de la Charte des droits et libert\u00e9s et de la Constitution, dont la modification n\u00e9cessite un processus beaucoup plus complexe. Or, lorsqu'une nouvelle loi dot\u00e9e de nouvelles dispositions cr\u00e9e, comme dans le cas pr\u00e9sent, de s\u00e9rieux doutes quant \u00e0 ce qu'il adviendra si l'individu ne peut acquitter sa dette, nous avons un probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3147630\" data-originallang=\"en\">Peut-\u00eatre ne comprend-il pas que le Code criminel est simplement une loi ant\u00e9rieure pouvant \u00eatre modifi\u00e9e par tout projet de loi adopt\u00e9 par la Chambre des communes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/12/11/geoff-regan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/geoff-regan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1640/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7851240",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Increasing Offenders' Accountability for Victims Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la responsabilisation des contrevenants \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des victimes"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/12/11/",
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}
}