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{
"time": "2016-05-03 15:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Reid (Lanark\u2014Frontenac\u2014Kingston, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Scott Reid (Lanark\u2014Frontenac\u2014Kingston, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4319284\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, part of what I am doing in raising my intervention at this point is to actually give my colleague the opportunity to finish off the point he was making, which I think was quite close to his conclusion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4319285\" data-originallang=\"en\">As he does, I wonder if he could also address something that came up in his discussion of advance directives, which was the very last thing he was addressing. He mentioned individuals who suffer from ALS. I would submit to him, and I would be interested in his response to this, that the Supreme Court's jurisprudence in this matter is based entirely on cases of individuals with ALS who approach death in a very atypical manner, in that their minds typically are completely intact while their bodies are completely frozen.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4319286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Advance directives, I would submit, are primarily something that deals with the opposite situation, where the person's body may be fine, but the mind is gone, most obviously someone who is affected by Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4319287\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the member could work that into his comments, I would appreciate it. If not, I would very much like to hear the rest of what he has to say.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4319284\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, si j'interviens \u00e0 ce moment-ci, c'est en partie pour donner \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue la chance de terminer son id\u00e9e. Je crois qu'il avait presque termin\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4319285\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demandais en outre si, ce faisant, il pourrait \u00e9galement parler d'un point qu'il a soulev\u00e9 en parlant des directives anticip\u00e9es, le dernier sujet qu'il a abord\u00e9. Il a mentionn\u00e9 les personnes qui souffrent de SLA. Or, la jurisprudence de la Cour supr\u00eame en la mati\u00e8re est enti\u00e8rement fond\u00e9e sur des cas de personnes atteintes de SLA qui approchent de la mort de mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s atypique, c'est-\u00e0-dire que, habituellement, leurs facult\u00e9s intellectuelles sont compl\u00e8tement intactes alors que leur corps ne r\u00e9pond plus du tout.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4319286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Selon moi, les directives anticip\u00e9es visent principalement la situation contraire, o\u00f9 le corps de la personne fonctionne bien, mais o\u00f9 les facult\u00e9s intellectuelles ne sont plus l\u00e0, l'exemple le plus \u00e9vident \u00e9tant les personnes atteintes d'Alzheimer ou d'une autre forme de d\u00e9mence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4319287\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pouvait parler de cela tout en terminant son id\u00e9e, je lui en serais reconnaissant. Quoi qu'il en soit, j'aimerais vraiment entendre le reste de ce qu'il a \u00e0 dire.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/5/3/scott-reid-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-reid/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4349/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8890956",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": "Le Code criminel"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/5/3/",
"related": {
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}
}