{"time": "2006-05-09 15:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Tony Clement (Minister of Health and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, CPC)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2324\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in my colleague's budget on behalf of the Government of Canada, there was $1 billion earmarked for pandemics and pandemic planning. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2325\" data-originallang=\"en\">To prepare for the pandemic, $600 million is going to go to various government agencies designed to cooperate not only with other provinces and territories but with the world to ensure that we have the surveillance necessary, we can react very quickly, we can contain any particular pandemic and then eradicate it from our midst.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2326\" data-originallang=\"en\">That is the challenge we face and that is the challenge that we have as a result of this foresighted budget.</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2324\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le budget que mon coll\u00e8gue a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au nom du gouvernement du Canada consacre 1 milliard de dollars \u00e0 la planification des mesures d'urgence en cas de pand\u00e9mie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2325\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour que le pays soit pr\u00eat \u00e0 affronter une \u00e9ventuelle pand\u00e9mie, le gouvernement investira 600 millions de dollars dans diverses agences gouvernementales qui collaboreront non seulement avec les provinces et les territoires, mais aussi avec le reste du monde, afin que nous ayons les moyens de d\u00e9pistage n\u00e9cessaires, que nous soyons capables de r\u00e9agir tr\u00e8s rapidement et que nous puissions contenir et \u00e9radiquer de notre territoire une pand\u00e9mie \u00e9ventuelle.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2326\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voil\u00e0 le d\u00e9fi que nous devons relever et que nous rel\u00e8verons gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 notre budget clairvoyant.</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2006/5/9/tony-clement-3/", "politician_url": "/politicians/tony-clement/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/376/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "1524252", "h1": {"en": "Oral Questions", "fr": ""}, "h2": {"en": "Health", "fr": ""}, "document_url": "/debates/2006/5/9/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2006%2F5%2F9%2F"}}