Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-02-22 16:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Hedy Fry",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"449488\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would be pleased to respond to that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449489\" data-originallang=\"en\">We, as a Liberal government, have stood in the House and recognized that those injustices were done in our own memory by people whose parents are still alive. As a result of those injustices, we brought forward the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We wanted to ensure those injustices would never happen again. Inherent in the Charter of Rights is minority rights, section 15. The political party that now forms the government forgot there were minorities in this country who were supposed to be kept safe under those rights. Every time we brought forward sexual orientation issues on a minority group, the Conservatives voted against them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us not talk about rights. We know that happened and we have decried our past every time it happened. We set in place structures, such as the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, the Official Languages Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to deal with all those things so they will not happen again.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449491\" data-originallang=\"en\">We could go back as far as the founding of Canada, if we wish, but I am speaking about a vision for today and a vision for the future. I am speaking about the challenges that we currently face and that we will be facing in the next 10 years.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449492\" data-originallang=\"en\">We put moneys into these things and we set up structures to deal with them. Where are they? I would like an accounting of them.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"449488\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je r\u00e9pondrai \u00e0 cela avec plaisir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449489\" data-originallang=\"en\">En tant que gouvernement lib\u00e9ral, nous avons reconnu, \u00e0 la Chambre, que ces injustices ont \u00e9t\u00e9, \u00e0 notre connaissance, commises par des gens dont les parents sont toujours vivants. \u00c0 cause de ces injustices, nous avons adopt\u00e9 la Charte des droits et libert\u00e9s. Nous voulions nous assurer que pareilles injustice ne se produisent jamais plus. L'article 15 de la Charte garantit les droits \u00e0 l'\u00e9galit\u00e9 des minorit\u00e9s. Le parti politique qui constitue maintenant le gouvernement a oubli\u00e9 que les droits des minorit\u00e9s sont prot\u00e9g\u00e9s par la Charte. Toutes les fois que nous avons pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 des questions li\u00e9es \u00e0 l'orientation sexuelle, les conservateurs ont vot\u00e9 contre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ne parlons pas de droits. Nous savons que cela s'est produit et nous avons d\u00e9plor\u00e9 notre pass\u00e9 \u00e0 chaque occasion. Nous avons mis en place des structures, comme la Loi sur le multiculturalisme canadien, la Loi sur les langues officielles et la Charte des droits et libert\u00e9s, pour faire en sorte qu'il n'y ait plus jamais d'injustices semblables.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449491\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous pourrions certes remonter \u00e0 la fondation du Canada, mais c'est l'avenir qui m'int\u00e9resse. Je m'int\u00e9resse aux d\u00e9fis qui se pr\u00e9sentent \u00e0 nous maintenant et qui se pr\u00e9senteront \u00e0 nous dans les dix ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449492\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons consacr\u00e9 des fonds \u00e0 cela et nous nous sommes dot\u00e9s de structures pour cela. Qu'en est-il? Je voudrais qu'on en parle.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/2/22/hedy-fry-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "1932301",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Citizenship and Immigration",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/2/22/",
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}