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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": "2007-05-15 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"623420\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the social condition of Canada's first nations people is this country's greatest failure and this country's greatest shame.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"623421\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations served notice that decades of round tables, consultations and royal commissions have gone nowhere and have done nothing to improve the social conditions of the people that he represents. The national chief served notice that his people are losing hope and that when young people lose hope, desperation can lead to social unrest and civil disobedience.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"623422\" data-originallang=\"en\">It was in 1990 that social unrest among first nations led to the Oka crisis. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples bought a decade of peace, but in the absence of any meaningful progress, we should recognize that peace is a finite commodity. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"623423\" data-originallang=\"en\">We should be grateful and recognize and pay tribute to the leadership of first nations who have kept a lid on the boiling pot of social unrest among their people. We should serve notice to the government of today that it must act meaningfully today.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"623420\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la situation sociale des Autochtones repr\u00e9sente le pire \u00e9chec du Canada et sa plus grande honte. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"623421\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, le chef national de l'Assembl\u00e9e des Premi\u00e8res Nations a affirm\u00e9 que des d\u00e9cennies de tables rondes, de consultations et d'\u00e9tudes par des commissions royales n'ont rien donn\u00e9 et n'ont rien fait pour am\u00e9liorer la situation sociale des personnes qu'il repr\u00e9sente. Il a signal\u00e9 que son peuple \u00e9tait en train de perdre espoir et que, lorsque les jeunes perdaient espoir, cela pouvait entra\u00eener des troubles sociaux et de la d\u00e9sob\u00e9issance civile.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"623422\" data-originallang=\"en\">En 1990, les troubles sociaux qui s\u00e9vissaient chez les Autochtones ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 la crise d'Oka. La Commission royale sur les peuples autochtones nous a donn\u00e9 une d\u00e9cennie de paix, mais en l'absence de r\u00e9els progr\u00e8s, nous devons reconna\u00eetre que la paix a des limites. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"623423\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous devrions exprimer notre reconnaissance et rendre hommage aux chefs des Premi\u00e8res nations qui sont parvenus \u00e0 contenir les tensions sociales croissantes parmi les leurs. Nous devrions aviser le gouvernement actuel qu'il doit prendre des mesures significatives \u00e0 ce sujet d\u00e8s aujourd'hui. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/5/15/pat-martin-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2084985",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Aboriginal Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/5/15/",
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}
}