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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": "2006-12-07 10:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kevin Sorenson (Crowfoot, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"336833\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of hundreds of Canadians who are in support of young Canadians volunteering in communities in Canada and all over the world.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336834\" data-originallang=\"en\">We appreciate their efforts as Canada's new government is committed to working with the voluntary sector to promote citizen participation and engagement in Canadian society.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336835\" data-originallang=\"en\">In budget 2006, Canada's new government ensured that we focus our support to front line volunteer organizations. We exempted donations by publicly listed securities to public charities from capital gains tax. Volunteer organizations will continue to receive funding from a broad range of government programs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336836\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners want young Canadians to have the benefits and rewards from the experience that volunteer community work provides. They support Canada's new government taking legislative measures to assist in this effort.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"336833\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai l'honneur de pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition au nom de centaines de Canadiens qui appuient les jeunes Canadiens qui font du b\u00e9n\u00e9volat au Canada et partout dans le monde. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336834\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le nouveau gouvernement du Canada appr\u00e9cie leurs efforts et il s'est engag\u00e9 \u00e0 collaborer avec le secteur du b\u00e9n\u00e9volat afin d'encourager la participation et l'engagement des citoyens au sein de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336835\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le budget de 2006, le nouveau gouvernement du Canada a voulu donner son soutien principalement aux organismes b\u00e9n\u00e9voles de premi\u00e8re ligne. Nous avons accord\u00e9 une exemption d'imp\u00f4t sur les gains en capital tir\u00e9s des dons de valeurs cot\u00e9es en bourse \u00e0 des organismes publics de bienfaisance. Les organismes b\u00e9n\u00e9voles vont continuer \u00e0 recevoir des fonds d'une vaste gamme de programmes gouvernementaux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336836\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires veulent que les jeunes Canadiens b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient des avantages et des satisfactions qui d\u00e9coulent de l'exp\u00e9rience acquise par l'entremise du travail communautaire b\u00e9n\u00e9vole. Ils appuient l'adoption de mesures l\u00e9gislatives \u00e0 cette fin par le nouveau gouvernement du Canada pour soutenir ces efforts.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/12/7/kevin-sorenson-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-sorenson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1244/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1824777",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Volunteerism",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/12/7/",
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}
}