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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2004-12-01 14:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Ruby Dhalla (Brampton\u2014Springdale, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, December 5 is International Volunteer Day. It is officially recognized by the United Nations as a day on which volunteers around the world celebrate their contributions and their dedication.</p>\n<p>One such dedicated Canadian volunteer is Jason Goveas. Jason is an Ottawa high tech worker and has been a volunteer for a very long time.</p>\n<p>He works at a homeless shelter in the downtown core serving breakfast to over 200 homeless people every day. He has also spent a lot of time and a lot of energy doing good work in other capacities, including two separate Habitat for Humanity projects. He has just recently returned from a 15 month engagement in South Africa where he provided IT support to a child welfare agency.</p>\n<p>From coast to coast, volunteers like Jason strengthen our communities and make the world a better place. They serve on boards and committees, mentor peers, organize cultural and recreational activities, support the elderly, provide shelter, counsel youth, clean parks, coach teams and so much more. Volunteers do this work because they--</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/2004/12/1/ruby-dhalla-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/ruby-dhalla/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1350/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Volunteerism",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2004/12/1/",
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}