Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2012-09-19 20:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Niki Ashton",
        "fr": "Mme Niki Ashton"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2975663\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, as the member will have heard, I also referred to Bill <a data-HoCid=\"5683261\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-42/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-42</a> and the important debate that took place in this House, including looking at the various aspects that are indeed raised by this bill. I certainly know that our critic on public safety has spoken to that as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2975664\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, the reality is that there is only one court case where about 200 women have come forward with serious allegations of sexual harassment, based on the fact they are women working in this workplace. There is no other workplace for which there is such a court case presently. There is no other allegation of abuse within the RCMP where 200 people have come together to put forward such a court case.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2975665\" data-originallang=\"en\">The specificity of sexual harassment remains the question at stake. Men can also be sexually harassed, although we know that the greatest number tends to be women in our society, and certainly in the case of the RCMP the allegations have been made by women. That specificity must be considered and financial and political priority must be placed on it.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2975663\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e se rappellera que j'ai \u00e9galement parl\u00e9 du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"5683261\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-42/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-42</a> et de l'important d\u00e9bat qu'il a soulev\u00e9 dans cette Chambre, au cours duquel on en a examin\u00e9 toutes les facettes. Je sais que notre porte-parole en mati\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique a \u00e9galement pris la parole \u00e0 ce sujet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2975664\" data-originallang=\"en\">Toutefois, il n'y a qu'un seul recours en justice o\u00f9 environ 200 femmes ont d\u00e9pos\u00e9 des all\u00e9gations graves de harc\u00e8lement sexuel dont elles auraient fait l'objet pour la simple raison qu'elles sont des femmes travaillant dans ce milieu de travail. Aucun autre milieu de travail n'est vis\u00e9 par un tel recours \u00e0 l'heure actuelle. Aucune autre all\u00e9gation d'abus au sein de la GRC n'a donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 un recours collectif r\u00e9unissant 200 personnes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2975665\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le harc\u00e8lement sexuel demeure ce qui est en jeu. Les hommes aussi peuvent \u00eatre victimes de harc\u00e8lement sexuel, m\u00eame si l'on sait que ce sont les femmes qui en sont le plus souvent victimes dans notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Certes, dans le cas de la GRC, les all\u00e9gations ont \u00e9t\u00e9 faites par des femmes. Ce probl\u00e8me particulier doit \u00eatre examin\u00e9 et constituer une priorit\u00e9 budg\u00e9taire et politique.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2012/9/19/niki-ashton-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/niki-ashton/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/942/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7681517",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Royal Canadian Mounted Police",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2012/9/19/",
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}