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{
"time": "2007-06-20 15:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jean-Claude D'Amours (Madawaska\u2014Restigouche, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"725275\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I want to present a petition from several hundred people in my riding. It concerns, among other things, eliminating the waiting period for employment insurance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"725276\" data-originallang=\"fr\">For months, if not years, we have been talking about eliminating the waiting period. Despite my attempt last week to obtain the unanimous consent of the House, my private member's bill was not adopted.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"725277\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The petitioners criticize the Conservative government for not wanting to go ahead with eliminating the waiting period. As soon as the Conservatives had the chance, they voted against eliminating the waiting period. The petitioners are also calling on the Conservative government to make sure people have the choice of applying for employment insurance on paper or on the Internet. The petitioners are asking the government to eliminate the waiting period for employment insurance once and for all and to respect those who need it the most: the people who work every day and have no choice but to apply for employment insurance because they do seasonal work.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"725275\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je pr\u00e9sente une p\u00e9tition provenant de plusieurs centaines de citoyens de ma circonscription qui concerne, entre autres, l'\u00e9limination des semaines d'attente pour l'assurance-emploi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"725276\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Depuis plusieurs mois, pour ne pas dire plusieurs ann\u00e9es, nous parlons de l'\u00e9limination des semaines d'attente. Malgr\u00e9 ma tentative, la semaine derni\u00e8re, d'obtenir le consentement unanime de la Chambre, mon projet de loi \u00e9manant des d\u00e9put\u00e9s n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"725277\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires reprochent au gouvernement conservateur de ne pas vouloir aller de l'avant quant \u00e0 l'\u00e9limination des semaines d'attente. D\u00e8s que les conservateurs en ont eu la chance, ils ont toujours vot\u00e9 contre l'\u00e9limination des semaines d'attente. De plus, les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement conservateur de s'assurer que les citoyens peuvent avoir le choix de remplir les formulaires de demande d'assurance-emploi de format papier ou de format \u00e9lectronique, dans l'Internet. Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent que le gouvernement \u00e9limine une fois pour toutes les semaines d'attente pour l'assurance-emploi et respecte les familles qui en ont le plus besoin, soit celles qui travaillent tous les jours et qui n'ont pas le choix de faire une demande d'assurance-emploi \u00e0 cause de leur travail saisonnier.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/6/20/jean-claude-damours-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jean-claude-damours/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1317/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2167076",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Employment Insurance",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/6/20/",
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}
}