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{
"time": "2015-06-18 17:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Raymond C\u00f4t\u00e9 (Beauport\u2014Limoilou, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Raymond C\u00f4t\u00e9 (Beauport\u2014Limoilou, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4165660\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170396\" href=\"/politicians/sean-casey/\" title=\"Sean Casey\">Charlottetown</a> for his speech. It is a rather worrisome debate. My colleague, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"170299\" href=\"/politicians/francoise-boivin/\" title=\"Fran\u00e7oise Boivin\">Gatineau</a>, pointed out how this is a very election-minded bill. I would like to get back to the facts and to the problems experienced in some countries. Obviously, our neighbours to the south, the Americans, are stuck managing a huge problem with violence in their prison system. I want to share a quote from the U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder. He said:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4165661\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Statistics have shown\u2014and all of us have seen\u2014that high incarceration rates and longer-than-necessary prison terms have not played a significant role in materially improving public safety, reducing crime or strengthening communities. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4165662\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is quite clear that the United States is currently trying to backtrack on these exceptionally long and harsh sentences because they do not fix the problem and they create a lot of social problems. That is not to mention the high cost of the prison system and the American justice system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4165663\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Could my colleague give us other examples from around the world, or even more American examples, of bad measures that the Conservatives are trying to force on us?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4165660\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"170396\" href=\"/politicians/sean-casey/\" title=\"Sean Casey\">Charlottetown</a> de son discours. C'est un d\u00e9bat assez troublant. Ma coll\u00e8gue, la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"170299\" href=\"/politicians/francoise-boivin/\" title=\"Fran\u00e7oise Boivin\">Gatineau</a>, a soulign\u00e9 \u00e0 quel point c'\u00e9tait une op\u00e9ration de mise en march\u00e9 vraiment \u00e9lectoraliste. Je voudrais revenir aux faits et aux probl\u00e8mes v\u00e9cus dans certains pays. \u00c9videmment, nos voisins du Sud, nos voisins am\u00e9ricains, se retrouvent \u00e0 devoir g\u00e9rer un probl\u00e8me de violence \u00e9norme dans le syst\u00e8me carc\u00e9ral. Je vais citer le procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des \u00c9tats-Unis, M. Eric Holder:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4165661\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Selon les statistiques, et nous en avons tous \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moins, le taux \u00e9lev\u00e9 d'emprisonnement et les peines plus longues que n\u00e9cessaire ne contribuent pas de fa\u00e7on importante et concr\u00e8te \u00e0 accro\u00eetre la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique, \u00e0 diminuer le taux de criminalit\u00e9 ou \u00e0 renforcer le tissu social. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4165662\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il est tr\u00e8s clair que les \u00c9tats-Unis cherchent actuellement \u00e0 reculer sur ces peines exag\u00e9r\u00e9ment longues et dures, parce qu'elles n'apportent pas de solutions et cr\u00e9ent \u00e9norm\u00e9ment de probl\u00e8mes sociaux, sans compter le co\u00fbt tr\u00e8s \u00e9lev\u00e9 du syst\u00e8me carc\u00e9ral et judiciaire am\u00e9ricain.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4165663\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> J'aimerais que mon coll\u00e8gue nous donne d'autres exemples partout dans le monde ou qu'il parle davantage de l'exemple am\u00e9ricain, exemple \u00e0 ne pas suivre et que les conservateurs cherchent \u00e0 nous imposer.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/6/18/raymond-cote-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/raymond-cote/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4126/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8757229",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Life Means Life Act",
"fr": "Loi sur les peines de prison \u00e0 vie purg\u00e9es en entier"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/6/18/",
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}
}