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{
"time": "2025-06-20 11:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale\u2014Langley City, CPC)",
"fr": "Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale\u2014Langley City, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8859832\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, how many women have to be beaten half to death before the government stops giving repeat offenders a free pass?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8859833\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Hugh Mason is 34 years old with a violent history that reads like a warning label: assault, assault with a weapon, uttering threats, resisting arrest, theft, breaching probation. Over and over again, in just three years, he has been hauled into court and released 37 times, and now he is on video shoving a woman into the street, brutally kicking and punching her as she crawls away for her life.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8859834\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That happened last week, just a few kilometres from my home in Langley. I walk those streets. My kids and grandkids walk those streets. It is happening because the government is protecting violent criminals rather than innocent Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8859835\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Why will the Liberal government not fix the broken bail system and stop putting dangerous predators back on the streets? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8859832\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, combien de femmes devront \u00eatre brutalement battues avant que le gouvernement arr\u00eate de donner un passe\u2011droit aux r\u00e9cidivistes?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8859833\" data-originallang=\"en\">Hugh Mason est un homme de 34 ans au pass\u00e9 violent contre lequel les gens devraient \u00eatre mis en garde en raison de la liste de ses crimes: agression, agression arm\u00e9e, prof\u00e9ration de menaces, r\u00e9sistance \u00e0 une arrestation, vol, manquement aux conditions de probation. En trois ans seulement, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 tra\u00een\u00e9 devant les tribunaux et lib\u00e9r\u00e9 37 fois. Aujourd'hui, on le voit sur une vid\u00e9o pousser une femme dans la rue et lui assener brutalement des coups de pied et de poing pendant qu'elle essaie de se sauver en rampant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8859834\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'incident est survenu la semaine derni\u00e8re, \u00e0 quelques kilom\u00e8tres seulement de chez moi, \u00e0 Langley. Je marche dans ces rues. Mes enfants et mes petits\u2011enfants marchent dans ces rues. Ces incidents se produisent parce que le gouvernement prot\u00e8ge les criminels violents plut\u00f4t que les Canadiens innocents.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8859835\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral ne r\u00e9pare\u2011t\u2011il pas le syst\u00e8me dysfonctionnel de mise en libert\u00e9 sous caution et n'arr\u00eate\u2011t\u2011il pas de remettre en libert\u00e9 des pr\u00e9dateurs dangereux?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/6/20/tamara-jansen-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/tamara-jansen/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4665/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13108254",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Public Safety",
"fr": "La s\u00e9curit\u00e9 publique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/6/20/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F6%2F20%2F"
}
}