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{
"time": "2026-06-11 09:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Emma Harrison (Peterborough, Lib.)",
"fr": "Emma Harrison (Peterborough, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9446323\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446324\" data-originallang=\"en\">Good morning to all of the witnesses. Thank you for the incredibly thoughtful testimony you've given so far.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446325\" data-originallang=\"en\">The riding I represent is Peterborough. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446326\" data-originallang=\"en\">My husband is a paramedic. I've seen how his job has so drastically changed from when he started to now. During the election, I asked him what the most challenging thing about his job was when he's responding to calls about the people who are unhoused in the riding. They get to know them and they know their story because the situation happens frequently. They're picking up the same person over and over again. He said the hardest thing is knowing there's nothing else he can do except drop them off at the emergency department, and more often than not, they don't even go in. They just walk away.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446327\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ms. Boileau, how is your municipality coordinating with housing providers, shelters, health services and indigenous partners to create a more integrated homelessness response system?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9446323\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446324\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bonjour \u00e0 tous les t\u00e9moins. Je vous remercie des t\u00e9moignages incroyablement r\u00e9fl\u00e9chis que vous avez livr\u00e9s jusqu'\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446325\" data-originallang=\"en\">La circonscription que je repr\u00e9sente est Peterborough.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446326\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon mari est ambulancier param\u00e9dical. J'ai vu \u00e0 quel point son travail a chang\u00e9 radicalement depuis ses d\u00e9buts. Pendant la campagne \u00e9lectorale, je lui ai demand\u00e9 ce qu'il y avait de plus difficile dans son travail lorsqu'il r\u00e9pondait \u00e0 des appels au sujet des personnes sans logement dans la circonscription. Il finit par les conna\u00eetre et par conna\u00eetre leur histoire, car ces situations se produisent fr\u00e9quemment. Il se retrouve \u00e0 prendre en charge la m\u00eame personne encore et encore. Il m'a dit que le plus dur, c'est de savoir qu'il ne peut rien faire d'autre que de les d\u00e9poser aux urgences, et que, la plupart du temps, ils n'y entrent m\u00eame pas. Ils s'en vont, tout simplement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9446327\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame Boileau, comment votre municipalit\u00e9 coordonne\u2011t\u2011elle ses efforts avec les fournisseurs de logements, les refuges, les services de sant\u00e9 et les partenaires autochtones pour cr\u00e9er un syst\u00e8me d'intervention plus int\u00e9gr\u00e9 en mati\u00e8re d'itin\u00e9rance?</p>"
},
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