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{
"time": "2015-03-23 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Diane Ablonczy",
"fr": "L'hon. Diane Ablonczy"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4022049\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we have chosen not to do that. We believe, in the case of the provocation defence, that where an individual, a Canadian, is threatened, has been criminally assaulted and takes measures to protect himself or herself, this is a reasonable course of action in those cases.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4022050\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member will remember that the government passed an act to give lawful protection to people who are threatened, for example, by a home invasion where they may be beaten or tied up and somehow find a way to overpower their attackers, perhaps causing the death of the attacker. Any reasonable society feels that kind of provocation, when it is met with force, sometimes has to be found lawful. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4022051\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, in the case of simply an insult or something that another person finds offensive, that is not a legitimate use of the defence, and that is why we are moving to change that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4022049\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous avons choisi de ne pas faire cela. En ce qui concerne la d\u00e9fense de provocation, nous estimons que lorsqu'un Canadien est menac\u00e9 et subit une agression criminelle, il est raisonnable qu'il prenne des moyens pour se d\u00e9fendre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4022050\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 se souvient peut-\u00eatre que le gouvernement a adopt\u00e9 une loi pour assurer une protection l\u00e9gale aux victimes qui se d\u00e9fendent de leur agresseur au point peut-\u00eatre de le tuer \u2014 dans une situation o\u00f9 elles risquent d'\u00eatre ligot\u00e9es ou battues, comme lors d'une invasion de domicile, par exemple. Toute soci\u00e9t\u00e9 raisonnable consid\u00e8re qu'en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 ce genre de provocation, le recours \u00e0 la force est parfois l\u00e9gitime.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4022051\" data-originallang=\"en\">Toutefois, quand il s'agit d'une simple insulte ou d'une chose jug\u00e9e offensante, il n'est pas l\u00e9gitime d'avoir recours \u00e0 la force. C'est pourquoi nous apportons la modification.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/3/23/diane-ablonczy-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/diane-ablonczy/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1243/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8619081",
"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"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/3/23/",
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}
}