Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2023-10-20 12:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, CPC)",
        "fr": "Mme Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7964155\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to present today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7964156\" data-originallang=\"en\">The first petition calls upon this place to legislate the abuse of a pregnant woman and/or the infliction of harm on a preborn child as aggravating circumstances for sentencing purposes in the Criminal Code. At the stage of sentencing, after someone has been found guilty, they want aggravating circumstances to be required.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7964157\" data-originallang=\"en\">Their rationale is that it is a well-established fact to all of us, and we know this, that the risk of violence against women increases when they are pregnant. Currently, the injury or death of preborn children as victims of crime are not considered aggravating circumstances for sentencing purposes in our Criminal Code, which means they may or may not be considered, and often they are not. Canada has no abortion law and the petitioners indicate that this legal void is so extreme that we are not even in a place in this House to recognize preborn children as victims of violent crimes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7964158\" data-originallang=\"en\">Finally, justice requires that an attacker who abuses a pregnant woman and/or her preborn child should be sentenced accordingly. The sentence should match the crime.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7964155\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai deux p\u00e9titions \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7964156\" data-originallang=\"en\">La premi\u00e8re p\u00e9tition demande au Parlement d'inscrire dans le Code criminel, parmi les circonstances aggravantes aux fins de la d\u00e9termination de la peine, la violence envers une femme enceinte ou l\u2019infliction de blessures \u00e0 un enfant \u00e0 na\u00eetre. Au moment de la d\u00e9termination de la peine, apr\u00e8s qu'une personne a \u00e9t\u00e9 jug\u00e9e coupable, les p\u00e9titionnaires souhaitent que ces actes soient consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme des circonstances aggravantes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7964157\" data-originallang=\"en\">Leur raisonnement est que c\u2019est un fait bien \u00e9tabli que le risque de violence \u00e0 l\u2019endroit des femmes augmente quand elles sont enceintes. \u00c0 l\u2019heure actuelle, dans le Code criminel, le fait de blesser ou de tuer un enfant \u00e0 na\u00eetre en commettant un acte criminel n\u2019est pas consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme une circonstance aggravante aux fins de la d\u00e9termination de la peine, ce qui signifie que cela peut \u00eatre pris en compte ou non, et, souvent, ce n'est pas le cas. Le Canada n\u2019a pas de loi sur l\u2019avortement, et les p\u00e9titionnaires indiquent que ce vide juridique est tellement extr\u00eame que nous ne pouvons m\u00eame pas reconna\u00eetre, \u00e0 la Chambre, les enfants \u00e0 na\u00eetre en tant que victimes de crimes violents.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7964158\" data-originallang=\"en\">Enfin, la justice exige que l\u2019agresseur qui maltraite une femme enceinte ou son enfant \u00e0 na\u00eetre re\u00e7oive une peine en cons\u00e9quence. La peine doit \u00eatre proportionnelle au crime.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2023/10/20/cathay-wagantall-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/cathay-wagantall/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12380744",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Petitions",
        "fr": "P\u00e9titions"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Criminal Code",
        "fr": "Le Code criminel"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2023/10/20/",
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    }
}