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{
"time": "2020-11-27 13:00:00",
"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 du ministre de la Justice et procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Canada, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6385324\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, as a point of clarification, there are four protections for conscience rights in this regime: the preamble, section 9 of the former Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>, section 2 of the Charter and paragraph 132 of the Carter decision.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6385325\" data-originallang=\"en\">In terms of persons with disabilities and respecting their autonomy, I refer the member opposite to the comments of Senator Petitclerc, former Conservative minister Steven Fletcher, and many others who have indicated that there is a heterogeneity of views among the disability community.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6385326\" data-originallang=\"en\">Last, the question I would put to the member opposite comes from the Truchon decision at paragraph 678. The court addressed the issue of the competence and dignity of persons with disabilities and said:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6385327\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Where natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, the consent and suffering of the disabled are worthy only of the sympathy of Parliament, which has adopted a protectionist policy towards every such person, regardless of his or her personal situation. As soon as death approaches, however, the state is prepared to recognize the right to autonomy. This is a flagrant contradiction of the fundamental principles concerning respect for the autonomy of competent people, and it is this unequal recognition of the right to autonomy and dignity that is discriminatory in this case. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6385328\" data-originallang=\"en\">That is the court in Truchon disavowing the previous regime and requiring this Parliament to extend the regime to ensure the competence, dignity and autonomy of persons with disabilities.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6385329\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was wondering if the member opposite would care to comment on that paragraph.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6385324\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je tiens \u00e0 pr\u00e9ciser que le r\u00e9gime comprend quatre mesures de protection de la libert\u00e9 de conscience: le pr\u00e9ambule du projet de loi, l'article 9 de l'ancien projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8177165\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-14/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)\">C-14</a>, l'article 2 de la Charte et le paragraphe 132 de l'arr\u00eat Carter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6385325\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne le respect de l'autonomie des personnes handicap\u00e9es, je renvoie la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face aux observations de la s\u00e9natrice Petitclerc, de l'ancien ministre conservateur Steven Fletcher et de beaucoup d'autres personnes, selon lesquels les points de vue au sein de la communaut\u00e9 des personnes handicap\u00e9es sont vari\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6385326\" data-originallang=\"en\">Enfin, la question que je veux poser \u00e0 la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face porte sur le paragraphe 678 de l'arr\u00eat Truchon. La cour a soulev\u00e9 la question de la comp\u00e9tence et de la dignit\u00e9 des personnes handicap\u00e9es en d\u00e9clarant ceci:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6385327\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Si leur mort naturelle n\u2019est pas raisonnablement pr\u00e9visible, le consentement et la souffrance des personnes handicap\u00e9es ne m\u00e9ritent que la sympathie du l\u00e9gislateur qui adopte une politique protectionniste, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de toutes ces personnes sans tenir compte de leur situation propre. D\u00e8s que leur mort approche, l\u2019\u00c9tat est cependant pr\u00eat \u00e0 reconna\u00eetre leur droit \u00e0 l\u2019autonomie. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une contradiction flagrante au niveau des principes fondamentaux quant au respect de l\u2019autonomie des personnes aptes et c\u2019est cette absence d\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 dans la reconnaissance du droit \u00e0 l\u2019autonomie et de la dignit\u00e9 qui se r\u00e9v\u00e8le discriminatoire en l\u2019esp\u00e8ce. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"6385328\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans l'arr\u00eat Truchon, la cour d\u00e9savoue le r\u00e9gime pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent et oblige le Parlement \u00e0 \u00e9tendre la port\u00e9e du r\u00e9gime afin de respecter la comp\u00e9tence, la dignit\u00e9 et l'autonomie des personnes handicap\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6385329\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e d'en face peut nous dire ce qu'elle pense de ce paragraphe.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/11/27/arif-virani-14/",
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"source_id": "11045674",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": "Le Code criminel"
},
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