Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-05-14 16:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Roger Valley (Kenora, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1092978\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague serves the largest riding in Canada and serves with distinction. Anywhere in her riding is a long way from Ottawa.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092979\" data-originallang=\"en\">Some of the points that she just made have a direct impact on my riding. In her riding, she must fly everywhere. I represent 21 first nations in northern Ontario and I must fly to them all the time. Roughly one-quarter of all the fly-ins in Canada I serve in the <a data-HoCid=\"78989\" href=\"/politicians/294/\" title=\"Roger Valley\">Kenora</a> riding.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092980\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the things she talked about just recently was the capacity. Even the most sophisticated urban reserves that have communities on them have resources or have access to resources. When we get to the remote sites that she serves and that I serve in northern Ontario, those challenges can be escalated. They do not have any resources and they have no information. They know nothing or very little of what is going to happen. We can feel the apprehension in these communities when we travel to them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092981\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would suggest that the hardest areas to serve are the remote sites, the fly-in sites, because the resources are not there. Unless they are specifically identified, these people will not have the opportunity to participate or to have the information and they will not be able to move this issue forward in any way. I think they will be afraid of this legislation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092982\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would like to hear her thoughts on those comments on the remote sites.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1092978\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ma coll\u00e8gue repr\u00e9sente la plus grande circonscription du Canada et elle s'acquitte de sa t\u00e2che avec distinction. Toutes les localit\u00e9s de sa circonscription sont loin d'Ottawa.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092979\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certains des arguments qu'elle vient de soulever s'appliquent \u00e9galement \u00e0 ma circonscription. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e doit se d\u00e9placer en avion dans sa circonscription. Je repr\u00e9sente 21 Premi\u00e8res nations du Nord de l'Ontario et chaque fois que je leur rends visite, j'y vais en avion. Environ un quart de tous les endroits qui ne sont accessibles que par avion au Canada se trouvent dans la circonscription de <a data-HoCid=\"78989\" href=\"/politicians/294/\" title=\"Roger Valley\">Kenora</a> que je repr\u00e9sente.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092980\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e vient juste de parler entre autres de la capacit\u00e9. M\u00eame les r\u00e9serves les plus d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es et les plus urbanis\u00e9es comptent des collectivit\u00e9s qui ont des ressources ou qui y ont acc\u00e8s. Quand il s'agit de localit\u00e9s \u00e9loign\u00e9es comme celles qu'elle repr\u00e9sente ou que je repr\u00e9sente dans le Nord de l'Ontario, les d\u00e9fis peuvent \u00eatre encore plus grands. Ces collectivit\u00e9s n'ont ni ressources, ni information. Elles ne savent rien ou tr\u00e8s peu de ce qui va arriver. On peut sentir l'appr\u00e9hension dans ces collectivit\u00e9s lorsqu'on s'y rend. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092981\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'estime que les r\u00e9gions les plus difficiles \u00e0 repr\u00e9senter sont celles qui sont \u00e9loign\u00e9es et celles qui accessibles uniquement par avion, parce que les ressources sont absentes. \u00c0 moins d'une initiative sp\u00e9ciale, les gens de ces r\u00e9gions n'auront pas la possibilit\u00e9 de participer ou d'avoir de l'information et ils ne pourront absolument pas faire avancer cette question. Je crois qu'ils auront peur de cette mesure l\u00e9gislative. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1092982\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J'aimerais que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e nous fasse part de son point de vue suite \u00e0 mes observations sur les collectivit\u00e9s \u00e9loign\u00e9es. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/5/14/roger-valley-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/294/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1377/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2475894",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/5/14/",
    "related": {
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    }
}