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{
"time": "2020-12-02 21:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Tako Van Popta",
"fr": "M. Tako Van Popta"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6401079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, first I will talk about the Supreme Court of Canada. As a lawyer practising law for many years, I have the deepest respect for the Supreme Court of Canada. Very many well-written decisions come out of there, which are shaping Canadian society. I have the deepest respect for them. If the Truchon decision had been appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, we would have had a different outcome. We certainly would have had good constitutional considerations put into the decision.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6401080\" data-originallang=\"en\">As for people changing their mind, I recognize that Bill <a data-HoCid=\"10875380\" href=\"/bills/43-2/C-7/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)\">C-7</a> would allow people to change their mind if they have cognitive ability, but that is the whole point. Advance requests do not protect people who have cognitive disability at the time that the lethal injection is going to be applied. This also puts the doctor in a very difficult position of having to make that final decision to apply the lethal injection. I do not think that we are any further ahead.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6401079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vais d'abord parler de la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada. En tant qu'avocat qui a pratiqu\u00e9 le droit pendant de nombreuses ann\u00e9es, j'ai un respect profond pour la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada. Elle rend bon nombre de d\u00e9cisions bien r\u00e9dig\u00e9es qui fa\u00e7onnent la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne. J'ai le plus grand respect pour cette institution. Si la d\u00e9cision Truchon avait fait l'objet d'un appel \u00e0 la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada, nous aurions eu un r\u00e9sultat diff\u00e9rent. La d\u00e9cision aurait certainement comport\u00e9 d'excellentes consid\u00e9rations d'ordre constitutionnel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6401080\" data-originallang=\"en\"> En ce qui a trait au droit des personnes de changer d'id\u00e9e, je reconnais que le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"10875380\" href=\"/bills/43-2/C-7/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying)\">C-7</a> permettrait aux personnes qui en ont la capacit\u00e9 cognitive de changer d'id\u00e9e, mais c'est l\u00e0 toute la question. Les demandes anticip\u00e9es ne prot\u00e8gent pas les personnes qui ont une d\u00e9ficience cognitive au moment d'administrer l'injection l\u00e9tale. Cela met aussi les m\u00e9decins dans la position difficile de devoir prendre la d\u00e9cision finale d'administrer cette injection. \u00c0 mon avis, nous n'avons fait aucun progr\u00e8s.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/12/2/tako-van-popta-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/tako-van-popta/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4544/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11057857",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Criminal Code",
"fr": "Le Code criminel"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Sitting Resumed",
"fr": "Reprise de la s\u00e9ance"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/12/2/",
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}
}