Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2016-02-17 18:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Phil McColeman",
        "fr": "M. Phil McColeman"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4207950\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Okay, and I believe your organization, if my memory serves me right, was against NAFTA as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207951\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let's move on to the next question, which was with regard to home care. I'm very familiar with that. I worked 29 years with some of the most vulnerable people in society, disabled people. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207952\" data-originallang=\"en\">Often, in some of the most gut-wrenching circumstances, parents have to tend to their children's needs when they're diagnosed with cancer. That was my situation when my son was two years old. My wife and I have a small business. One of us left our job, and we stayed with our child.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207953\" data-originallang=\"en\">Through those years, we found that the support of civic organizations\u2014civil society, if you want to call it that\u2014such as the Canadian Cancer Society and others was quite adequate. In fact, it was a bit overly generous at times for our situation. There were other families on the oncology floor\u2014about 16 of us\u2014at McMaster Hospital. There were other people in different socio-economic circumstances who were given additional resources from civil society organizations, such as church groups and others who support that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207954\" data-originallang=\"en\">Is there any place in Canadian society for that to be a model to go forward? We survived it and we came out stronger. We weren't eating Kraft Dinner every night; we were living, not a rich lifestyle, but.... I'm not going to go there, but do you know what I'm trying to say here?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207955\" data-originallang=\"en\">I hear all of this, and I think it's admirable, but I'm a conservative and I say the government can't do everything for everybody. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4207950\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tr\u00e8s bien. Et je crois que votre organisation, si j'ai bonne m\u00e9moire, \u00e9tait aussi oppos\u00e9e \u00e0 l'ALENA.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207951\" data-originallang=\"en\">Passons \u00e0 la prochaine question, sur les soins \u00e0 domicile. Je connais tr\u00e8s bien le domaine, ayant travaill\u00e9 29 ans avec des membres de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 qui sont parmi les plus vuln\u00e9rables, les personnes handicap\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207952\" data-originallang=\"en\">Souvent, dans les circonstances des plus d\u00e9chirantes, les parents doivent pourvoir aux besoins de leurs enfants dont on a diagnostiqu\u00e9 le cancer. \u00c7'a \u00e9t\u00e9 ma situation quand mon fils avait deux ans. Ma femme et moi avions une petite entreprise. L'un de nous a quitt\u00e9 son emploi pour rester avec notre enfant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207953\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans ces ann\u00e9es-l\u00e0, nous avons trouv\u00e9 que l'appui des organisations locales \u2014 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile, si vous pr\u00e9f\u00e9rez \u2014 comme la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne du cancer et d'autres \u00e9tait ad\u00e9quat. En fait, il \u00e9tait parfois un peu trop g\u00e9n\u00e9reux, compte tenu de notre situation. D'autres familles fr\u00e9quentaient le service d'oncologie \u2014 nous \u00e9tions environ 16 \u2014 de l'h\u00f4pital McMaster. D'autres, qui se trouvaient dans des situations socio\u00e9conomiques diff\u00e9rentes ont re\u00e7u de l'aide d'organismes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile, par exemple, des organismes confessionnels et autres qui oeuvrent dans ce domaine.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207954\" data-originallang=\"en\">Est-ce que \u00e7a ne pourrait pas \u00eatre dor\u00e9navant un mod\u00e8le ailleurs dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne? Nous sommes sortis plus forts de l'\u00e9preuve. Nous ne mangions pas du \u00ab Kraft Dinner \u00bb tous les soirs; nous vivions, pas richement, mais... Je m'arr\u00eate ici, mais vous savez ce que je veux dire, n'est-ce pas?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4207955\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'entends tout cela et je pense que c'est admirable, mais je suis conservateur et, d'apr\u00e8s moi, l'\u00c9tat ne peut pas tout faire pour tous.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/42-1/4/phil-mccoleman-24/",
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