{"content":[{"text":"Coming up tomorrow - Wednesday June 30 at 6:00 PM - is my next Facebook \n Live Q&A event. My special guest for this episode is my Conservative colleague, \n Eric Duncan, from Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry in Ontario.","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.196212,"width":0.662104,"height":0.05924099999999999}},{"text":"Eric is an openly gay man in Parliament, and he is going to bring some valuable, \n timely and well-worth-hearing perspectives on a couple of the big issues: the \n banning of conversion \"therapy\" (Bill C-6), and his own fight to end the ban on \n LGBTQ Canadians donating blood. We'll also talk about some of the other big \n issues on the national political scene, some of which I touch on below.","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.275351,"width":0.661099,"height":0.102408}},{"text":"You should take a moment to listen to Eric's statement in the House on the \n blood ban. It's only one minute, and it is very well done.","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.397656,"width":0.613326,"height":0.03765799999999997}},{"text":"By the way, I was one of the 263 Members of Parliament who voted in favour of \n Bill C-6 to end the barbaric practice of \"conversion therapy\", intended to \"fix\" gay \n Canadians. Such a practice has no place in Canada. Those who argue that the \n bill would prevent private conversations between adults and their counsellors, or \n children and their parents, are simply wrong. The bill does no such thing. Such \n conversations are protected by the Charter, and the bill applies to institutional or","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.824824,"width":0.661679,"height":0.12399099999999996}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.168304,"top":0.063551,"width":0.255945,"height":0.053059},{"left":0.168304,"top":0.452949,"width":0.663131,"height":0.355224}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.168304,"top":0.063551,"width":0.255945,"height":0.053059},{"left":0.168304,"top":0.452949,"width":0.663131,"height":0.355224}]}