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{
"time": "2007-02-01 09:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Ilze Epners",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"419166\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yes, you did. They're unfortunate statistics that are hard to swallow, but that is the truth, that 49% have literacy problems. There are different levels of literacy problems, but 49% of our population today has problems.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"419167\" data-originallang=\"en\">I don't know if you've read or heard of any of the statistics that just came out last week by the president of the Canadian Council on Learning. He actually found that 55% of Canadian adults misunderstood medical instructions, which is even more serious. We're finding now that senior citizens have a great deal of difficulty understanding their medication, all the things they need to do to maintain their health, understanding doctors. So the literacy issue goes much further than just 49%. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"419168\" data-originallang=\"en\">The really severe level ones, those who are total non-readers, for all intents and purposes\u2014that's a level one\u2014are at approximately 15% throughout Canada.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"419166\" data-originallang=\"en\">Oui. Ce sont l\u00e0 des statistiques regrettables et qui sont difficiles \u00e0 accepter, mais c'est la v\u00e9rit\u00e9. 49% de la population a des probl\u00e8mes d'alphab\u00e9tisation. Ces probl\u00e8mes sont de niveaux diff\u00e9rents, mais 49 p. 100 de notre population en a. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"419167\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne sais pas si vous avez lu ou cit\u00e9 des statistiques qui viennent d'\u00eatre rendues publiques par le pr\u00e9sident du Conseil canadien sur l'apprentissage. Il a en fait constat\u00e9 que 55 p. 100 des adultes canadiens interpr\u00e9taient mal les instructions m\u00e9dicales, ce qui est encore plus grave. Nous nous apercevons maintenant que les personnes du troisi\u00e8me \u00e2ge ont beaucoup de difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 comprendre comment utiliser leur m\u00e9dicament, toutes les choses qu'ils doivent faire pour demeurer en bonne sant\u00e9, y compris aller comprendre les m\u00e9decins. Donc, le probl\u00e8me de l'alphab\u00e9tisation va beaucoup plus loin que la simple question de ce pourcentage de 49 p. 100.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"419168\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les cas vraiment graves de personnes de niveau un, ceux des personnes totalement illettr\u00e9es, dans la pratique \u2014 c'est ce que repr\u00e9sente le niveau un \u2014 forment environ 15 p. 100 de la population au Canada. </p>"
},
"url": "/committees/official-languages/39-1/36/ilze-epners-2/",
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"source_id": "1867792",
"document_url": "/committees/official-languages/39-1/36/",
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