{"time": "2017-11-28 17:50:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Greg Fergus (Hull\u2014Aylmer, Lib.)", "fr": "M. Greg Fergus (Hull\u2014Aylmer, Lib.)"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5153837\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153838\" data-originallang=\"fr\">My colleague had some very interesting things to say. He said that the government introduced proposals in this bill on marijuana in order to win the vote of 18-year-olds who smoke cannabis. That is totally ridiculous.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153839\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I am not a doctor or a philosopher, but I remember my philosophy classes. There is a concept call Occam's razor. According to that philosophy, there is no need to seek a complicated explanation that relies on principles outside of experience when a simple explanation based on existing knowledge adequately accounts for the phenomenon that we are experiencing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153840\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Does my hon. colleague know that the current consumption rate in Canada, with the prohibition of cannabis, is the highest in the industrialized world? If we want to regulate access to this substance and eliminate or greatly reduce the profits of organized crime, the best way to do that is to legalize cannabis. </p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5153837\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais remercier mon honorable coll\u00e8gue de son discours. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153838\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mon coll\u00e8gue a tenu des propos tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressants. Il a dit que si le gouvernement a introduit des propositions dans ce projet de loi concernant la marijuana, c'est pour gagner les votes des jeunes de 18 ans qui fument du cannabis. C'est compl\u00e8tement loufoque.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153839\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je ne suis ni m\u00e9decin ni philosophe, mais je me souviens bien de mes le\u00e7ons de philosophie. Il y a un concept qui s'appelle le rasoir d'Ockham. Selon ce raisonnement, il est inutile de chercher une explication compliqu\u00e9e faisant appel \u00e0 des principes hors du champ de l'exp\u00e9rience quand une explication simple, \u00e0 partir de ce que nous connaissons d\u00e9j\u00e0, suffit \u00e0 rendre compte d'un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne qui se manifeste \u00e0 nos sens. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5153840\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mon honorable coll\u00e8gue reconna\u00eet-il que le taux de consommation actuel au Canada, avec la prohibition du cannabis, est le plus \u00e9lev\u00e9 du monde industrialis\u00e9? Si on veut contr\u00f4ler l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 cette substance et \u00e9liminer ou r\u00e9duire fortement les recettes du crime organis\u00e9, la meilleure fa\u00e7on de le faire, c'est de l\u00e9galiser le cannabis.</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2017/11/28/greg-fergus-3/", "politician_url": "/politicians/greg-fergus/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4424/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "9812200", "h1": {"en": "Government Orders", "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"}, "h2": {"en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 2", "fr": "Loi no 2 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2017"}, "document_url": "/debates/2017/11/28/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2017%2F11%2F28%2F"}}