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{
"time": "2025-10-30 13:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London South, CPC)",
"fr": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London-Sud, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8952950\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I note that the Guelph Police Service's board in my hon. colleague's riding was pushing for bail reform years ago, endorsing a nationwide campaign of police service boards joining police chiefs and municipalities, calling on the Liberal government to act on this and to recognize the shortcomings in Liberal government policy that have gotten us here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8952951\" data-originallang=\"en\">I fully share the hon. member's desire for public safety and improved measures to deal with criminality.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8952952\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the hon. member acknowledge that it was Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9745407\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-75/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-75</a> that got us here and made this a crisis demanding a response from the government?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8952950\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je souligne que la commission du service de police de Guelph, dans la circonscription de mon coll\u00e8gue, militait en faveur d'une r\u00e9forme de la mise en libert\u00e9 sous caution il y a des ann\u00e9es, soutenant une campagne nationale men\u00e9e par les commissions des services de police qui se sont jointes aux chefs de police et aux municipalit\u00e9s pour demander au gouvernement lib\u00e9ral d'agir dans ce dossier et de reconna\u00eetre les lacunes de sa politique qui nous ont men\u00e9s l\u00e0 o\u00f9 nous en sommes aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8952951\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je partage enti\u00e8rement le d\u00e9sir du d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'assurer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique et d'am\u00e9liorer les mesures de lutte contre la criminalit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8952952\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e reconna\u00eet-elle que c'est le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"9745407\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-75/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201175</a> qui nous a men\u00e9s l\u00e0 o\u00f9 nous en sommes aujourd'hui et qui a transform\u00e9 la situation en une crise qui exige une r\u00e9ponse du gouvernement?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/30/andrew-lawton-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-lawton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4738/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13211608",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Bail and Sentencing Reform Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la mise en libert\u00e9 sous caution et la d\u00e9termination de la peine"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/30/",
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}
}