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{
    "time": "2022-06-20 12:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bob Zimmer",
        "fr": "M. Bob Zimmer"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7256239\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I will answer the question by answering the previous member's question on red flag laws. We already have a very robust system for checks and balances in our firearms owners community. Again, I am a firearms owner. Every day, my name gets sifted through a database to see that I am still capable and safe to own firearms. That already happens. To have more applied to that just to make it more robust is not necessary. We already have that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7256240\" data-originallang=\"en\">What I am saying, and this is maybe what the member is alluding to, is she might believe it is necessary to have Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11814598\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-21/\" title=\"An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms)\">C-21</a>, but I do not. I do not see anything that is really of value in Bill C-21 to make Canada more safe. Again, it is misleading the country to say the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> is doing something positive about firearms. He is not. He could, and I wish he would.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7256239\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je r\u00e9pondrai \u00e0 cette question en r\u00e9pondant \u00e0 la question de l'intervenante pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente sur les dispositions concernant les signalements. Dans notre pays, nous avons un syst\u00e8me de v\u00e9rification et des m\u00e9canismes de contr\u00f4le tr\u00e8s rigoureux auxquels doivent se soumettre les propri\u00e9taires d'armes \u00e0 feu. Comme je l'ai dit, je suis moi-m\u00eame propri\u00e9taire d'armes \u00e0 feu. Tous les jours, mon dossier est v\u00e9rifi\u00e9 dans une base de donn\u00e9es pour voir si je suis encore apte \u00e0 poss\u00e9der des armes \u00e0 feu et si je peux le faire sans poser de risques. Cette pratique existe d\u00e9j\u00e0. Il n'est pas n\u00e9cessaire d'ajouter des dispositions pour rendre le syst\u00e8me encore plus rigoureux qu'il ne l'est d\u00e9j\u00e0.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7256240\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e croit peut\u2011\u00eatre qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'adopter le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11814598\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-21/\" title=\"An Act to amend certain Acts and to make certain consequential amendments (firearms)\">C\u201121</a>, mais pas moi. Je ne vois rien dans le projet de loi C\u201121 qui permettrait vraiment d'am\u00e9liorer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 au Canada. Je le r\u00e9p\u00e8te: avec ce projet de loi, on veut nous faire croire que le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> prend des mesures positives sur les armes \u00e0 feu, mais ce n'est pas le cas. Il pourrait prendre de telles mesures, et c'est ce que je souhaite qu'il fasse. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/6/20/bob-zimmer-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bob-zimmer/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4276/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11778737",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Criminal Code",
        "fr": "Le Code criminel"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/6/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F6%2F20%2F"
    }
}