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{
"time": "2006-11-24 11:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Gary Merasty (Desneth\u00e9\u2014Missinippi\u2014Churchill River, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"295780\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it will be a year ago tomorrow that the Liberal government concluded the landmark Kelowna accord. The agreement set aside $5.1 billion for health, education, housing and infrastructure, and economic development for Canada's aboriginal people and communities.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"295781\" data-originallang=\"en\">Perhaps the Conservative government does not realize that when it attacks the Kelowna accord, it is attacking the first nations people. It is attacking the M\u00e9tis people. It is attacking the Inuit people.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"295782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me read for members what Inuit leader Ms. Mary Simon recently said about the cancellation of the accord:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"295783\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Abandonment of this promise, combined with an absence of any alternative plan, is not a mere detour. It would be a self-declared admission of defeat. A focused, federally funded attack on the social problems that beset aboriginal people is a necessity, not an ideological indulgence. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"295784\" data-originallang=\"en\">The government's cancellation of the accord is not acceptable. It is not honourable. It is not in line with Canadian values.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"295780\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y aura un an demain que le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a conclu l'accord historique de Kelowna. Cet accord pr\u00e9voyait 5,1 milliards de dollars pour les services de sant\u00e9, l'\u00e9ducation, le logement, les infrastructures et le d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique des peuples et collectivit\u00e9s autochtones du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"295781\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement conservateur ne se rend peut-\u00eatre pas compte que, lorsqu'il attaque l'accord de Kelowna, il attaque les Premi\u00e8res nations. Il attaque les M\u00e9tis et les Inuits.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"295782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vous lis ce que le leader inuit Mary Simon d\u00e9clarait r\u00e9cemment au sujet de l'annulation de l'accord:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"295783\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Renoncer \u00e0 cette promesse sans avoir un plan de remplacement ne constitue pas uniquement un d\u00e9tour, c'est clairement l'admission d'un \u00e9chec. Un plan bien cibl\u00e9 et financ\u00e9 par le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral pour r\u00e9gler les probl\u00e8mes sociaux qui assaillent les peuples autochtones est une n\u00e9cessit\u00e9, pas une faveur id\u00e9ologique. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"295784\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'annulation de l'accord par le gouvernement est inacceptable. C'est un d\u00e9shonneur. Cela ne correspond pas aux valeurs canadiennes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/11/24/gary-merasty-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/343/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/510/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1797241",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Aboriginal Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/11/24/",
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}