Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2010-06-17 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gary Schellenberger",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2066036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Just speaking to that, I have no idea how many medals are out there. What I would like to see with this bill is for us to just give the same respect to our modern medals that we do to the medals that are 50 and 100 years old. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066037\" data-originallang=\"en\">For the veteran who has these medals, they are priceless to them. They're usually not for sale. It's usually after the fact. It's like I said with George Buckingham, whose name I mentioned. When I knew him, he was a bachelor. His parents had passed on. We painted his house. He used to feed the squirrels. That's all I knew about him. I didn't know that he had medals and I didn't know of his past. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066038\" data-originallang=\"en\">I don't know how many would be wanted by the museums. But my whole thing is my father... I noticed that on the order of business, the orders of the day, you have my name as \u201cGary Ralph Schellenberger\u201d. Well, my dad is Ralph Schellenberger, and he is a veteran. He has some medals, not great medals; he doesn't have a Silver Cross or anything. But you know, there are a lot of people like my dad. He was a farm boy and was signed up and went off to war. He didn't do anything other than be part of a great army that won the war.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066039\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Even I don't know what all his medals mean. I know I will receive those medals and I know what I'm going to do with those medals. I am going to donate them to the local museum so that my father is remembered forever and ever. They will be there;they might just go into a repository someplace. Will they be out for people's view every day? Not necessarily. But usually what museums do is archive those things. They will get the particulars of how and why this person did what he did. This was a young man who went to war because there was a need and he did receive medals.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066040\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the medals he has is an overseas medal. He didn't receive it until about 35 years ago, because he didn't think he was ever overseas. Well, during the Second World War he was sent to Newfoundland, and at that particular time Newfoundland was not part of Canada, so he received a medal for going overseas. Is that important? I think it is, because during the time he went, either one or two trips before, a ferry sunk going to Newfoundland. He was on one either the day before or the day after, so yes, it was dangerous.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066041\" data-originallang=\"en\">With that, I don't know how many numbers... It's not the veteran that I'm worried about. It's a niece, nephew, or a cousin somewhere down the line who might receive them and not realize what they are. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2066036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne sais pas du tout combien il y a de m\u00e9dailles. En pr\u00e9sentant ce projet de loi, je veux simplement que nous accordions le m\u00eame respect aux m\u00e9dailles modernes qu'\u00e0 celles qui ont 50 ou 100 ans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066037\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les anciens combattants ayant re\u00e7u de telles m\u00e9dailles leur attachent une valeur inestimable et, habituellement, ne souhaitent pas les vendre. Le probl\u00e8me se pose plus tard. Je vous rappelle le cas de George Buckingham, dont j'ai mentionn\u00e9 le nom tout \u00e0 l'heure. Il \u00e9tait c\u00e9libataire et ses parents \u00e9taient d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9s quand je l'ai connu. Nous avons peint sa maison. Il avait l'habitude de nourrir les \u00e9cureuils. \u00c0 l'\u00e9poque, c'est tout ce que je savais \u00e0 son sujet. J'ignorais qu'il avait des m\u00e9dailles. Je ne connaissais pas son pass\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066038\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne sais pas combien de m\u00e9dailles les mus\u00e9es vont vouloir conserver. Mais je m'int\u00e9resse \u00e0 ce dossier parce que mon p\u00e8re... J'ai remarqu\u00e9 que, dans l'ordre du jour, on a \u00e9crit que mon nom \u00e9tait \u00ab Gary Ralph Schellenberger \u00bb. Mon p\u00e8re se nomme Ralph Schellenberger et c'est un ancien combattant. Il s'est vu d\u00e9cerner des m\u00e9dailles. Non pas de grandes m\u00e9dailles, car il n'a ni la croix d'argent, ni une autre m\u00e9daille du genre. Mais il y a beaucoup de gens comme mon p\u00e8re. Jeune homme ayant grandi \u00e0 la ferme, il s'est enr\u00f4l\u00e9 et est parti \u00e0 la guerre. Il n'a rien fait d'autre que de se joindre \u00e0 une grande arm\u00e9e qui a gagn\u00e9 la guerre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066039\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne connais m\u00eame pas, moi-m\u00eame, la signification de ses m\u00e9dailles. Je sais seulement que je vais en h\u00e9riter et que je vais en faire don au mus\u00e9e local afin qu'on se souvienne de mon p\u00e8re pour toujours. Les m\u00e9dailles seront conserv\u00e9es l\u00e0-bas. Elles seront peut-\u00eatre entrepos\u00e9es et ne seront pas n\u00e9cessairement expos\u00e9es, car les mus\u00e9es conservent habituellement ces objets dans leurs archives. Ils en consignent l'histoire: les circonstances et les motifs ayant valu \u00e0 la personne d'\u00eatre d\u00e9cor\u00e9e. Dans ce cas, il s'agit d'un jeune homme qui a re\u00e7u une m\u00e9daille apr\u00e8s avoir r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 l'appel et \u00eatre parti \u00e0 la guerre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066040\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'une de ses m\u00e9dailles lui a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9cern\u00e9e pour service militaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger. Il l'a re\u00e7ue il y a environ 35 ans seulement parce qu'il ne croyait pas \u00eatre all\u00e9 \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger comme militaire. Or, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on l'a envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 Terre-Neuve et, \u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0, Terre-Neuve ne faisait pas partie du Canada. Donc, il a re\u00e7u une m\u00e9daille pour service militaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger. Est-ce important? Je pense que oui parce qu'une ou deux travers\u00e9es avant la sienne, le bateau faisant le voyage jusqu'\u00e0 Terre-Neuve avait coul\u00e9. Cela s'est produit le jour avant qu'il s'embarque ou le jour apr\u00e8s. Il y avait un danger bien r\u00e9el.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2066041\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mais, pour revenir \u00e0 votre question, je ne connais pas le nombre de m\u00e9dailles. Je ne m'inqui\u00e8te pas pour les m\u00e9dailles qui sont entre les mains des anciens combattants, mais plut\u00f4t pour celles qui se retrouvent un moment donn\u00e9 entre les mains d'une ni\u00e8ce, d'un neveu ou d'un cousin qui n'en conna\u00eet pas la valeur.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/veterans-affairs/40-3/20/gary-schellenberger-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gary-schellenberger/",
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    "document_url": "/committees/veterans-affairs/40-3/20/",
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