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{
    "time": "2024-10-21 14:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)",
        "fr": "M. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8635984\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, one day we will get there. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8635985\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would remind members that prayers are still said every day before the House begins its work. I would remind members that the government continues to uphold a religious exemption in the Criminal Code that permits calls for violence or even murder. That happened just a few weeks ago. That is serious. I would also remind members that the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> appointed a representative who spends her time criticizing Quebec's Bill 21 and blaming it for everything bad.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8635986\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Canada is not moving toward secularism. It is moving away from it, and it is also working on moving Quebec away from it. Will the government listen to reason and restrain its irresistible desire to constantly undermine Quebec's model of secularism?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8635984\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, un jour, on y arrivera.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8635985\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Je rappelle que la Chambre continue \u00e0 faire la pri\u00e8re tous les jours avant de commencer ses travaux. Je rappelle que le gouvernement continue \u00e0 maintenir une exception religieuse dans le Code criminel qui permet des appels \u00e0 la violence, allant m\u00eame jusqu'au meurtre. C'est arriv\u00e9 il y a quelques semaines \u00e0 peine. C'est grave, \u00e7a. Je rappelle aussi que le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> a nomm\u00e9 une repr\u00e9sentante qui passe son temps \u00e0 m\u00e9priser la loi 21 qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise et \u00e0 l'accuser de tous les maux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8635986\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Le Canada ne se dirige pas vers la la\u00efcit\u00e9. Il s'en \u00e9loigne et il travaille aussi \u00e0 en \u00e9loigner le Qu\u00e9bec. Est-ce que le gouvernement va entendre raison et se retenir de son irr\u00e9sistible envie de toujours vouloir affaiblir le mod\u00e8le qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la\u00efcit\u00e9?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/10/21/martin-champoux-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/martin-champoux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4585/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12932805",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Justice",
        "fr": "La justice"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/10/21/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F10%2F21%2F"
    }
}