Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2016-06-17 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Robert Morrissey (Egmont, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Robert Morrissey (Egmont, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4436347\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, rising to participate in the debate today, one cannot argue with the reality that those impacted by crime is real. Are there lives affected and changed? Of course they are. Do they go back to normal? No, never. Everybody who is impacted by acts of crime are impacted for life and normal is never achieved again. That is a clear fact.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436348\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, as a parliamentarian and as a former legislator, I often think of the times that we look to legislation to address numerous issues that sometimes we have no control over. It is from that perspective that I wish to speak.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436349\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I have been sitting in the House listening to very compelling stories given by members of the opposition. They gave a very real and very vivid descriptions. Unfortunately, in any of those situations, we cannot roll the clock back. We cannot change what happened. Those people are impacted, their lives turned upside down, and nothing we can do as parliamentarians can change that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436350\" data-originallang=\"en\">We experience as a society crime. We experience evil. As parliamentarians, we must look at how we will deal with this. Sometimes I feel we often look to present or change legislation and by doing this, we think we have done something that will prevent situations from happening in the future. lf it were that simple, it would be a position that I would look at and consider supporting.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436351\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, that is not the case. The very real stories we have heard today are situations that, regardless of the legislation that may be amended or changed, will not change the lives of those people impacted. We see a number of those across the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436352\" data-originallang=\"en\">Instead, I would like to look at whether as a society have we done enough to ensure that what began as someone's life does not lead to one of crime or where they may go. From that, we have a lot to do as parliamentarians to ensure that the positions we take and the changes we make in society are always driven to ensure those people have the opportunities that we have on an ongoing basis.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4436347\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en participant au d\u00e9bat aujourd\u2019hui, on ne peut contester la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de ce que vivent les personnes touch\u00e9es par un crime. Des vies sont-elles chang\u00e9es, boulevers\u00e9es? \u00c9videmment qu\u2019elles le sont. Est-ce que tout reprend son cours normal? Non, jamais. Toutes les personnes touch\u00e9es par des actes criminels en sont marqu\u00e9es \u00e0 vie et, pour elles, il n\u2019y a pas de retour \u00e0 la normale, jamais. C\u2019est un fait.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436348\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, en tant que parlementaire et ancien l\u00e9gislateur, je pense souvent aux moments o\u00f9 nous recourons \u00e0 des mesures l\u00e9gislatives pour r\u00e9gler de nombreuses questions qui \u00e9chappent parfois \u00e0 notre contr\u00f4le. C\u2019est de ce point de vue que je souhaite parler aujourd\u2019hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436349\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J\u2019\u00e9coutais les histoires poignantes que nous racontaient les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de l\u2019opposition. Leurs descriptions sont tr\u00e8s r\u00e9elles et frappantes. Malheureusement, dans aucune de ces situations il n\u2019est possible de revenir en arri\u00e8re. Il est impossible de changer ce qui est arriv\u00e9. Ces personnes sont marqu\u00e9es, leur vie est boulevers\u00e9e, et rien de ce que nous pouvons faire en tant que parlementaires n\u2019y changera quoi que ce soit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436350\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Nous sommes, en tant que soci\u00e9t\u00e9, victimes de crimes. Nous voyons des actes abominables. En tant que parlementaires, nous devons nous demander comment y faire face. Il m\u2019arrive de penser que nous cherchons souvent \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter des projets de loi et que, ce faisant, nous avons le sentiment d\u2019avoir fait quelque chose qui emp\u00eachera des situations de se reproduire \u00e0 l\u2019avenir. Si c\u2019\u00e9tait aussi simple, c\u2019est une position que j\u2019examinerais et que j\u2019envisagerais d\u2019appuyer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436351\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mais ce n\u2019est pas le cas. Les histoires v\u00e9ridiques que nous avons entendues aujourd\u2019hui parlent de situations o\u00f9, que la loi soit modifi\u00e9e ou non, la vie des personnes touch\u00e9es par ces crimes ne changera pas. Nous en voyons un certain nombre dans tout le pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4436352\" data-originallang=\"en\"> En fait, j\u2019aimerais savoir si, en tant que soci\u00e9t\u00e9, nous faisons ce qu\u2019il faut pour que des vies normales ne finissent pas en vie de crime ou de d\u00e9rives. Nous avons beaucoup \u00e0 faire \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard en tant que parlementaires pour veiller \u00e0 ce que les positions que nous adoptons et les changements que nous apportons \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 visent toujours \u00e0 faire en sorte que ces personnes aient toujours les m\u00eames possibilit\u00e9s que nous.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/6/17/bobby-morrissey-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bobby-morrissey/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4337/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9010717",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Private Members' Business",
        "fr": "Initiatives parlementaires"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Life Means Life Act",
        "fr": "Loi sur les peines de prison \u00e0 vie purg\u00e9es en entier"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/6/17/",
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    }
}