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{
"time": "2018-11-08 15:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Arif Virani (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Arif Virani (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre de la Justice et procureure g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du Canada, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5646171\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to the speech and comments by my colleague opposite. I would like to raise the point of LGBTQ rights, a point that neither he nor his Conservative colleagues addressed, but which was raised a number of times in committee.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5646172\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are two aspects of this bill I want to solicit the member's comments on. First, this bill would put aspects that relate to the LGBTQ2 community into compliance with the Constitution. It would remove vagrancy and the bawdy house provisions, which would allow the expungement of records that historically discriminated against the LGBTQ2 community. Second, the bill would remove section 159 of the Criminal Code, which makes sexual relations for consenting LGBTQ2 minors between the ages of 16 and 18 an offence, whereas the same sexual relations between a heterosexual couple are not an offence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5646173\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the member opposite appreciate these aspects in terms of this government and Parliament's support on the important issue of human rights of the LGBTQ2 community?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5646171\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 avec attention les commentaires et le discours du d\u00e9put\u00e9 de l'autre c\u00f4t\u00e9. J'aimerais soulever un sujet qui n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 abord\u00e9 par lui ni par ses coll\u00e8gues conservateurs, mais qui l'a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs reprises en comit\u00e9. Il s'agit des droits de la communaut\u00e9 LGBTQ.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5646172\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Il y a deux aspects de ce projet de loi sur lesquels j\u2019aimerais entendre les commentaires du d\u00e9put\u00e9. Premi\u00e8rement, ce projet de loi ferait en sorte que certaines dispositions qui touchent la communaut\u00e9 LGBTQ2 soient conformes \u00e0 la Constitution. Les dispositions sur le vagabondage et les maisons de d\u00e9bauche seraient \u00e9limin\u00e9es, ce qui permettrait la radiation de dossiers qui, historiquement, \u00e9taient discriminatoires envers la communaut\u00e9 LGBTQ2. Deuxi\u00e8mement, le projet de loi supprimerait l\u2019article 159 du Code criminel, qui \u00e9rige en infraction les relations sexuelles entre des mineurs LGBTQ2 consentants \u00e2g\u00e9s de 16 \u00e0 18 ans, alors que les m\u00eames relations sexuelles entre personnes h\u00e9t\u00e9rosexuelles ne constituent pas une infraction.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5646173\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d\u2019en face reconna\u00eet-il ces aspects de l\u2019appui du gouvernement et du Parlement \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de l\u2019importante question des droits de la personne de la communaut\u00e9 LGBTQ2?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/11/8/arif-virani-16/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/arif-virani/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4435/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10371880",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": "Le Code criminel"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/11/8/",
"related": {
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}
}