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{
    "time": "2017-11-09 11:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ted Falk (Provencher, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Ted Falk (Provencher, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5117549\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, having served with my colleague across the way from Coquitlam\u2014Port Coquitlam on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, and being the only two non-lawyers on the committee, I know that he is a very common-sense and practical kind of person. Therefore, my question to him is this. Does the legislation really meet the objectives that the Liberals have stated, that is, to minimize the access that youth would have to cannabis? Does he believe that allowing every household in Canada to have four mature marijuana plants would minimize the exposure and access that youth would have to cannabis?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5117549\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai si\u00e9g\u00e9 au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la justice et des droits de la personne avec le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Coquitlam\u2014Port Coquitlam, en face. Nous sommes les deux seuls membres du Comit\u00e9 qui ne sont pas avocats, et je sais qu'il est une personne tr\u00e8s logique et pratique. Voici donc ma question \u00e0 son intention. Le projet de loi atteint-il r\u00e9ellement les objectifs que les lib\u00e9raux ont fix\u00e9s, c'est-\u00e0-dire de r\u00e9duire au minimum l'acc\u00e8s des jeunes au cannabis? Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 croit-il que de permettre \u00e0 tous les m\u00e9nages au Canada d'avoir quatre plants de marijuana matures r\u00e9duira l'exposition et l'acc\u00e8s des jeunes au cannabis? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/11/9/ted-falk-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/ted-falk/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4162/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9779139",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Cannabis Act",
        "fr": "Loi sur le cannabis"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/11/9/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2017%2F11%2F9%2F"
    }
}