{"time": "2026-05-27 15:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Lib.)", "fr": "L'hon. Sean Fraser (ministre de la Justice et procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Canada et ministre responsable de l'Agence de promotion \u00e9conomique du Canada atlantique, Lib.)"}, "content": {"en": "

Mr. Speaker, the issue that the member raises has been an issue in Canada for a number of years. She should know well that the Supreme Court of Canada, in 2013, actually ruled on this specific issue. What is interesting about the timeline of that decision is that she was sitting in the federal cabinet at the time and chose to do absolutely nothing about it.

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For our part, we are in the midst of launching the most serious set of criminal law reforms to strengthen the Criminal Code that this country has seen in generations. Regardless of one's immigration status, if they commit a serious crime, they should be met with a serious penalty and, where a court deems appropriate, that can and should include deportation.

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Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la question que soul\u00e8ve la d\u00e9put\u00e9e est un probl\u00e8me au Canada depuis un certain nombre d'ann\u00e9es. Elle devrait savoir qu'en 2013, la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada s'est prononc\u00e9e pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment sur cette question. En ce qui concerne la chronologie de cette d\u00e9cision, il est int\u00e9ressant de noter que la ministre si\u00e9geait au Cabinet f\u00e9d\u00e9ral \u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0, et elle a choisi de ne rien faire du tout \u00e0 ce sujet.

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Pour notre part, nous sommes en train de lancer la plus ambitieuse s\u00e9rie de r\u00e9formes du droit p\u00e9nal que le pays ait connue depuis des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations afin de renforcer le Code criminel. Quel que soit son statut d'immigration, une personne qui commet un crime grave doit subir des cons\u00e9quences s\u00e9v\u00e8res, qui peuvent, et doivent, comprendre son expulsion du pays lorsqu'un tribunal le juge appropri\u00e9.

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