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{
    "time": "2015-03-12 11:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Christine Moore",
        "fr": "Mme Christine Moore"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4005166\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government is once again playing with words in order to whip up fear of strangers, fear of others.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4005167\" data-originallang=\"fr\">These are practices that are still being used. I completely disagree with calling them \u201cbarbaric cultural practices\u201d. As I illustrated, forced marriage was practised in Canada and in the British and French traditions. In that case, our own culture, our cultural heritage, is also barbaric. It is not the right word. The acts are barbaric, not the culture, regardless of who commits them.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4005166\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le gouvernement conservateur joue encore une fois avec les mots afin d'attiser la peur de l'\u00e9tranger, la peur de l'autre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4005167\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce sont des pratiques encore appliqu\u00e9es. Je suis tout \u00e0 fait en d\u00e9saccord avec le fait de qualifier cela de \u00ab pratiques culturelles barbares \u00bb. Comme je l'ai d\u00e9montr\u00e9, le mariage forc\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 pratiqu\u00e9 au Canada ainsi que dans le cadre des traditions britanniques et fran\u00e7aises. Il faudrait donc aussi dire que notre propre culture ou notre culture d'origine est barbare. Il s'agit d'un mauvais terme. Ce sont les gestes qui sont barbares, et non pas les cultures, peu importe qui les font.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/3/12/christine-moore-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/christine-moore/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4045/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8612681",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act",
        "fr": "Loi sur la tol\u00e9rance z\u00e9ro face aux pratiques culturelles barbares"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Second Reading",
        "fr": "Deuxi\u00e8me lecture"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/3/12/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2015%2F3%2F12%2F"
    }
}