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{
"time": "2025-11-18 11:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, CPC)",
"fr": "Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8993971\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated the comments my colleague made on the condition of this bill and on the recommendations. I am sure, as he has been listening, that he has heard a member across the way constantly ask if we are ready to do this because we are in a crisis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993972\" data-originallang=\"en\">Having been here for a decade now, I can tell members that what the government does is delay and deny, until finally Canadians have had enough and it starts to act. We are now finally acting, to some degree, on these terrible bills, Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11482450\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-5/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act\">C-5</a> and 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>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993973\" data-originallang=\"en\">What does he think the government has done in lieu of doing the work it should have been doing to get this bill in front of the House over five years ago?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8993971\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai bien aim\u00e9 les commentaires de mon coll\u00e8gue sur le sort du projet de loi et sur les recommandations. Je suis s\u00fbre que, comme il a \u00e9cout\u00e9 attentivement, il a entendu un d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face demander sans cesse si nous \u00e9tions pr\u00eats \u00e0 agir parce que nous sommes en situation de crise.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993972\" data-originallang=\"en\">Apr\u00e8s 10 ans ici, je peux dire aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s que le gouvernement ne fait que tergiverser et nier, jusqu'\u00e0 ce que les Canadiens en aient finalement assez, ce qui l'oblige \u00e0 agir. Nous agissons enfin, dans une certaine mesure, pour contrer les dispositions issues des terribles projets de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11482450\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-5/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act\">C\u20115</a> et <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>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8993973\" data-originallang=\"en\">Selon le d\u00e9put\u00e9, qu'a fait le gouvernement \u00e0 la place du travail qu'il aurait d\u00fb accomplir pour pr\u00e9senter ce projet de loi \u00e0 la Chambre il y a plus de cinq ans?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/18/cathay-wagantall-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/cathay-wagantall/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4403/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13240439",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Bail and Sentencing Reform Act",
"fr": "Loi sur les mesures de r\u00e9forme concernant la mise en libert\u00e9 sous caution et la d\u00e9termination de la peine"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/18/",
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}
}