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{
"time": "2013-04-22 17:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Steven Fletcher (Minister of State (Transport), CPC)",
"fr": "L'hon. Steven Fletcher (ministre d'\u00c9tat (Transports), PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3283284\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's comments, and I am very disappointed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3283285\" data-originallang=\"en\">First, let me say that the member had a very negative portrayal of our men and women in uniform, our police officers and our front-line public safety officials. I want to say that those people deserve respect, and we should honour them. They protect us every single day. That member should be ashamed for trying to run them down.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3283286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, the member said that this was somehow political, that the legislation is only here because of events of last week. That is ridiculous. The legislation has been before the various houses of Parliament for a very long time.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3283287\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today, we have to see how important it is that the government do its number one job, which is to protect the people who live within its boundaries. Why is the NDP always soft on crime and soft on terrorists?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3283284\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 les observations de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e, et je suis fort d\u00e9\u00e7u.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3283285\" data-originallang=\"en\">Premi\u00e8rement, je dois dire que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a bross\u00e9 un portrait bien n\u00e9gatif des militaires, des policiers et des agents de la paix de premi\u00e8re ligne. Je tiens \u00e0 dire que ces personnes ont droit au respect, et que nous devrions leur rendre hommage. Elles nous prot\u00e8gent quotidiennement. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e devrait avoir honte de les d\u00e9nigrer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3283286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e a dit qu'il s'agissait d'une forme d'instrumentalisation politique, que nous pr\u00e9sentons le projet de loi uniquement en raison des \u00e9v\u00e9nements de la semaine derni\u00e8re. C'est ridicule. Les Chambres du Parlement \u00e9tudient le projet de loi depuis fort longtemps.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3283287\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, nous devons comprendre \u00e0 quel point il est important pour le gouvernement de s'occuper de sa plus grande priorit\u00e9: prot\u00e9ger la population qui vit \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur des fronti\u00e8res canadiennes. Pourquoi les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates se montrent-ils toujours tol\u00e9rants \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de la criminalit\u00e9 et du terrorisme?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/4/22/steven-fletcher-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steven-fletcher/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/414/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7971728",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Combating Terrorism Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la lutte contre le terrorisme"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/4/22/",
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}
}