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{
"time": "2014-06-17 23:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Simms",
"fr": "M. Scott Simms"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3803138\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, first, I want to thank my colleagues for the sudden interest in what I was talking about. It is very kind of them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3803139\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to talk about the member's question, which pertains to the war on drugs. There is a way to do it and a dumb way to do it, which is to ignore the treatment part of it and just go after the traffickers and the people who buy the drugs. Yes, the penalties have to be stiff to act as a deterrent, and there is nothing wrong with that, but the treatment part of it is completely ignored. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3803140\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member brought up Bill <a data-HoCid=\"6254806\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-2/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act\">C-2</a> earlier. Evidence proves that what happens at an injection site actually works. It is improving the situation. It is not perfect, but it certainly is working. The reduction of 35% in drug abuse in that area shows that treatment for harm reduction has positive effects, yet it seems we overlook this because we want to go after that headline to be tough on crime, which is unfortunate.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3803138\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens tout d'abord \u00e0 remercier mes coll\u00e8gues de leur int\u00e9r\u00eat soudain pour ce que je dis. C'est tr\u00e8s gentil de leur part.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3803139\" data-originallang=\"en\">Passons \u00e0 la question de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e qui portait sur la lutte aux drogues. On peut soit bien faire les choses, soit s'y prendre en sans-dessein, notamment en faisant totalement fi des traitements et en ciblant unique les trafiquants et les acheteurs. Oui, il faut que les sanctions soient s\u00e9v\u00e8res pour qu'une loi soit dissuasive, et il n'y a rien de mal \u00e0 cela, mais le gouvernement a totalement \u00e9vacu\u00e9 l'id\u00e9e m\u00eame des traitements. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3803140\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e a parl\u00e9 du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"6254806\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-2/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act\">C-2</a>. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 prouv\u00e9 que les centres d'injection supervis\u00e9e sont efficaces. Ils permettent d'am\u00e9liorer les choses. Ce n'est pas parfait, mais cela fonctionne. Il y a eu une baisse de 35 % de la consommation de drogue dans ce secteur; on peut donc constater que les mesures visant la r\u00e9duction des m\u00e9faits ont des effets positifs. Or, il semble que le gouvernement n'en ait pas tenu compte, parce qu'il veut s'en tenir \u00e0 son slogan, la lutte contre la criminalit\u00e9, et c'est dommage.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/6/17/scott-simms-11/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-simms/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8425694",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Drug-Free Prisons Act",
"fr": "Loi concernant l'\u00e9radication des drogues dans les prisons"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/6/17/",
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}