Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-01-31 14:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Laurie Hawn (Edmonton Centre, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"874670\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, for the second year in a row, I celebrated Christmas in Afghanistan. I spoke with our troops, visited development projects and met some of the Afghan people.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874671\" data-originallang=\"en\">One little girl has stayed in my thoughts. She was about six years old, with her whole life before her. That little girl can go to school, drink clean water, have access to health care, grow up and have a job because Canada is in Afghanistan.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874672\" data-originallang=\"en\">I cannot imagine leaving that little girl to the mercies of the Taliban. If we leave Afghanistan now, the Taliban will return and the gains the Afghan people have made will be lost.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874673\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Manley report has clearly stated that a stable and better governed Afghanistan with a growing economy is an achievable Canadian objective.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874674\" data-originallang=\"en\">We do need help and we are calling on our NATO allies to step up to the plate. We are also calling on the Liberal Party to remember its own proud heritage of standing up for oppressed people, even when the job is tough. It was the former Liberal prime minister who coined the phrase \u201cresponsibility to protect at the United Nations\u201d. Those cannot be mere words.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874675\" data-originallang=\"en\">I know our troops will rise to the challenge and I am confident that the Canadian people and my colleagues here in the House will do the same.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"874670\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pour la deuxi\u00e8me ann\u00e9e de suite, j'ai c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9 No\u00ebl en Afghanistan. L\u00e0-bas, je me suis entretenu avec nos soldats, je suis all\u00e9 voir des projets de d\u00e9veloppement et j'ai rencontr\u00e9 des Afghans. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874671\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le souvenir d'une petite fille est rest\u00e9 grav\u00e9 dans ma m\u00e9moire. Elle a environ six ans et toute la vie devant elle. Cette petite peut aller \u00e0 l'\u00e9cole, boire de l'eau potable, avoir acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des soins de sant\u00e9, grandir et, plus tard, obtenir un emploi, parce que le Canada est pr\u00e9sent en Afghanistan.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874672\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ne peux imaginer qu'on puisse laisser cet enfant \u00e0 la merci des talibans. Si nous quittons l'Afghanistan maintenant, les talibans vont revenir et les Afghans perdront les gains r\u00e9alis\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874673\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le rapport Manley dit clairement que l'Afghanistan peut devenir un pays stable, mieux gouvern\u00e9 et dot\u00e9 d'une \u00e9conomie en croissance, et que c'est l\u00e0 un objectif r\u00e9alisable pour le Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874674\" data-originallang=\"en\"> C'est un fait que nous avons besoin d'aide et nous demandons \u00e0 nos alli\u00e9s de l'OTAN d'apporter leur contribution. Nous demandons aussi au Parti lib\u00e9ral de se souvenir de sa propre tradition d'aide aux opprim\u00e9s, m\u00eame lorsque la t\u00e2che est ardue. C'est l'ancien premier ministre lib\u00e9ral qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 le premier \u00e0 parler de la \u00ab responsabilit\u00e9 de prot\u00e9ger \u00bb qui incombe aux Nations Unies. Ces propos ne doivent pas \u00eatre de vaines paroles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"874675\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nos soldats sauront relever le d\u00e9fi, et j'ai confiance que les Canadiens et mes coll\u00e8gues \u00e0 la Chambre en feront autant. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/1/31/laurie-hawn-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/laurie-hawn/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/441/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2290964",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Afghanistan",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/1/31/",
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