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{
"time": "2008-04-14 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Dawn Black (New Westminster\u2014Coquitlam, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1026886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, last week the Social Planning and Research Council released the homeless count for metro Vancouver. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026887\" data-originallang=\"en\">To say that the results were devastating is an understatement. Across the Lower Mainland, homelessness increased by 19% over the last three years, in New Westminster, 53%, in the tri-cities, a whopping 157%.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026888\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is something fundamentally wrong with this picture. The numbers have increased in B.C. since 2001 and continue to rise. Not since the Great Depression have we seen a crisis like this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026889\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservative government is failing its people. There was a lot of back-slapping in Ottawa over the announcement of $148,000 for a homelessness strategy. Yet the reality for ordinary folks in B.C. is that this money is less than one-quarter of the cost of a family home in Coquitlam.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026890\" data-originallang=\"en\">We do not need more strategies. We need housing. The government is failing, and we see the results of that failure under every bridge and on every street corner in metro Vancouver.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1026886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le Conseil de planification sociale et de recherche a publi\u00e9, la semaine derni\u00e8re, le recensement des sans-abri dans la r\u00e9gion m\u00e9tropolitaine de Vancouver. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026887\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le moins qu'on puisse dire, c'est que les chiffres sont catastrophiques. Dans l'ensemble de la vall\u00e9e du Bas-Fraser, le nombre de sans-abri a augment\u00e9 de 19 p. 100 au cours des trois derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es; \u00e0 New Westminster, il a grimp\u00e9 de 53 p. 100 et, dans la r\u00e9gion connue sous le nom de Tri-Cities, il a fait un bond de 157 p. 100. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026888\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a quelque chose qui cloche s\u00e9rieusement. La mont\u00e9e de l'itin\u00e9rance en Colombie-Britannique se poursuit depuis 2001. Jamais depuis la Crise de 1929 n'avait-on connu une crise d'une telle envergure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026889\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement conservateur manque \u00e0 ses engagements envers ses gens. On se congratulait, \u00e0 Ottawa, \u00e0 la suite de l'annonce d'un investissement de 148 000 $ dans une strat\u00e9gie pour les sans-abri. Or, pour les gens ordinaires en Colombie-Britannique, cette somme correspond \u00e0 moins du quart de ce qu'il en co\u00fbte pour acheter une maison \u00e0 Coquitlam. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1026890\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous n'avons que faire des strat\u00e9gies. Nous avons besoin de logements. Le gouvernement manque \u00e0 ses engagements, ce qui donne pour r\u00e9sultat la situation qui s'observe sous tous les ponts et \u00e0 tous les coins de rues dans la r\u00e9gion m\u00e9tropolitaine de Vancouver. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/4/14/dawn-black-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/406/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2417448",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Homelessness",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/4/14/",
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}