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{
"time": "2007-01-29 18:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Keith Martin (Esquimalt\u2014Juan de Fuca, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"393073\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, speaking for my colleagues, we are all very happy that the hon. member is back again to faithfully represent his constituents in the House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"393074\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could the member comment on the fact that seniors' issues are being neglected by the government and the fact that the Liberal government in the 1990s did something that very few other western countries had done, and that was to put pension stability first and foremost, successfully putting our public pensions on a firm fiscal footing? That has not been done, to my knowledge, by any other western nation. Our former finance minister deserves a great deal of credibility for that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"393075\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the member not think that seniors' issues, in particular health care, is being utterly neglected by the government? In fact, it has abrogated its responsibility to deal with that, which is the number one issue affecting Canadians from coast to coast. Poll after poll show that health care is the number one issue affecting Canadians. Yet since the government has come into power it has not, to my knowledge, introduced one single innovative series of solutions. Nor has the government or the <a data-HoCid=\"79008\" href=\"/politicians/tony-clement/\" title=\"Tony Clement\">Minister of Health</a> called together his provincial counterparts to work together to put our public health care system on firm financial and stable ground.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"393076\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does my hon. colleague not think the government should get with the program and start putting health care at the top of its list of priorities?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"393073\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, mes coll\u00e8gues et moi sommes tous tr\u00e8s heureux que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 soit de retour pour repr\u00e9senter fid\u00e8lement ses \u00e9lecteurs \u00e0 la Chambre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"393074\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 peut-il nous parler du fait que le gouvernement n\u00e9glige les questions concernant les personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es et du fait que, dans les ann\u00e9es 1990, le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a fait ce que tr\u00e8s peu de pays occidentaux ont fait, \u00e0 savoir assurer la stabilit\u00e9 et la solidit\u00e9 financi\u00e8res du r\u00e9gime de pensions public? Aucun autre pays occidental ne l'a fait, \u00e0 ma connaissance. Notre ancien ministre des Finances m\u00e9rite des f\u00e9licitations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"393075\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne croit-il pas que le gouvernement n\u00e9glige les questions concernant les personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es, notamment la sant\u00e9? En fait, le gouvernement s'est d\u00e9rob\u00e9 \u00e0 cette responsabilit\u00e9, qui constitue la principale pr\u00e9occupation des Canadiens d'un oc\u00e9an \u00e0 l'autre. Les sondages montrent les uns apr\u00e8s les autres que la sant\u00e9 est la principale pr\u00e9occupation des Canadiens. Or, depuis son arriv\u00e9e au pouvoir, le gouvernement conservateur n'a pas, \u00e0 ma connaissance, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 une seule s\u00e9rie de solutions novatrices. Ni le gouvernement ni le <a data-HoCid=\"79008\" href=\"/politicians/tony-clement/\" title=\"Tony Clement\">ministre de la Sant\u00e9 </a>n'ont invit\u00e9 leurs \u00e9quivalents provinciaux \u00e0 travailler avec eux pour assurer la stabilit\u00e9 et la solidit\u00e9 financi\u00e8res de notre r\u00e9gime de sant\u00e9 public.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"393076\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne croit-il pas que le gouvernement devrait s'attaquer au probl\u00e8me et placer la sant\u00e9 au sommet de ses priorit\u00e9s?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/1/29/keith-martin-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/keith-martin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1270/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1858839",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Pension Plan",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/1/29/",
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}
}