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{
"time": "2022-05-13 13:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Rachel Blaney (North Island\u2014Powell River, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Rachel Blaney (North Island\u2014Powell River, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7180882\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180883\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to thank everyone here, especially those of you who are having to share incredibly personal stories.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me just apologize that you have to face this reality and that the only way for us to address it is for you to come on a screen and tell people your really personal stories. I think that is a travesty. It's why I'm fighting so hard, and, of course, why I put forward Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11490920\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-221/\" title=\"An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to survivor pension benefits\">C-221</a> that will address this issue, an NDP bill that has been in the House repeatedly. Hopefully, we will finally see some action on it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180885\" data-originallang=\"en\">I will go to you first, Pat, and then I'm going to you right after, Kevin. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180886\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to know. When did you find out that, if you married or entered a common-law marriage after 60, you would not be able to have a survivor's pension for the woman you loved?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7180882\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vous remercie, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180883\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 remercier toutes les personnes pr\u00e9sentes aujourd'hui, en particulier celles qui doivent faire part d'histoires tr\u00e8s personnelles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180884\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 vous pr\u00e9senter des excuses pour cette r\u00e9alit\u00e9 que vous devez affronter et pour le fait que la seule fa\u00e7on pour nous de rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 cette situation est de vous demander de venir t\u00e9moigner en racontant des histoires tr\u00e8s personnelles. Je pense que ce qui arrive est scandaleux. C'est pourquoi je me bats tellement, \u00e9videmment, pourquoi j'ai pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11490920\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-221/\" title=\"An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to survivor pension benefits\">C-221</a> qui r\u00e9glera ce probl\u00e8me, un projet de loi n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 soumis \u00e0 la Chambre plusieurs fois. J'esp\u00e8re que nous finirons par y donner suite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180885\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je commencerai par vous, monsieur Boudrau, et ensuite, je passerai directement \u00e0 M. Sewell.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7180886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je veux savoir. Quand avez-vous d\u00e9couvert que, si vous vous mariez ou vivez en union de fait apr\u00e8s 60 ans,vous ne laisserez pas de pension du survivant pour la femme que vous aimez?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/veterans-affairs/44-1/14/rachel-blaney-1/",
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"source_id": "11687497",
"document_url": "/committees/veterans-affairs/44-1/14/",
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}