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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2006-12-12 13:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Derek Lee (Scarborough\u2014Rouge River, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"353527\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I have a petition from 1,500 Canadians from every province across the country. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"353528\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners state that tens of thousands of young Canadians every year are denied an opportunity to serve in an organized volunteer capacity at home and abroad. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"353529\" data-originallang=\"en\">The NGOs are out there and waiting and the youth are there. The petitioners call upon Parliament to legislate or take other measures to enable all our Canadian youth at home to volunteer at home and abroad for these types of volunteer community activities.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"353527\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je pr\u00e9sente une p\u00e9tition sign\u00e9e par 1 500 Canadiens de toutes les provinces du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"353528\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires soutiennent que, chaque ann\u00e9e, des dizaines de milliers de jeunes Canadiens sont priv\u00e9s de la possibilit\u00e9 de travailler comme b\u00e9n\u00e9voles au Canada ou \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"353529\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les ONG sont pr\u00eates \u00e0 agir et ont besoin d'aide et les jeunes sont disponibles. Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au Parlement de l\u00e9gif\u00e9rer ou de prendre d'autres mesures pour permettre aux jeunes Canadiens de faire du b\u00e9n\u00e9volat au Canada m\u00eame ou \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger, dans le cadre de ce type d'activit\u00e9s communautaires. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/12/12/derek-lee-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/derek-lee/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3226/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1838970",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Volunteerism",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/12/12/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2006%2F12%2F12%2F"
}
}