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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2006-09-29 11:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Denise Savoie (Victoria, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"91431\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, over nine million Canadian adults need enhanced literacy skills to succeed in our society. First the government called these adults \u201cfat to be cut\u201d and now it is calling them \u201crepair work\u201d that can be ignored.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"91432\" data-originallang=\"en\">Despite misleading answers in this House, the government does not even believe that fighting adult illiteracy is worth one dollar per Canadian per year.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"91433\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada's literacy movement has told us that these cuts have devastated local on the ground literacy projects.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"91434\" data-originallang=\"en\">When will the government reverse its shortsighted cuts?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"91431\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, plus de neuf millions d'adultes canadiens doivent avoir de meilleures comp\u00e9tences en mati\u00e8re de lecture et d'\u00e9criture pour r\u00e9ussir dans notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Parlant de ces gens, le gouvernement les a d'abord trait\u00e9s de \u00ab gras dans lequel on doit couper \u00bb et il en parle maintenant comme \u00e9tant des \u00ab travaux de r\u00e9paration \u00bb que l'on peut ignorer. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"91432\" data-originallang=\"en\">Malgr\u00e9 les r\u00e9ponses trompeuses qu'il a fournies \u00e0 la Chambre, le gouvernement juge qu'il ne vaut m\u00eame pas la peine de d\u00e9penser un dollar par Canadien par ann\u00e9e pour lutter contre l'analphab\u00e9tisme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"91433\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les responsables du mouvement canadien en faveur de l'alphab\u00e9tisation nous ont fait savoir que ces compressions avaient eu des r\u00e9percussions d\u00e9vastatrices sur les projets d'alphab\u00e9tisation locaux. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"91434\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand le gouvernement annulera-t-il ces compressions \u00e0 courte vue?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/9/29/denise-savoie-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denise-savoie/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/561/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1663767",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Literacy",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/9/29/",
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}
}