Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-05-29 22:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Richard Nadeau",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1127595\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Chair, on another subject, we\u2014I mean in my former life as a teacher\u2014met with Quebec, Canadian and even German aid workers to discuss the terrible Rwandan genocide tragedy. One aspect of the tragedy that we found most moving and that really touched young people and high school students\u2014not to mention that touched most of us, as parents\u2014was the issue of child soldiers. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127596\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Here in Canada, we have a child soldier, or at least, we have someone who was a child soldier when conflict broke out in Afghanistan, and who was taken prisoner. His name is Omar Khadr.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127597\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> I know that people have already asked questions about this, but there are some answers I would like to hear. What has the current government done to help countries with child soldiers rehabilitate them and help them escape the clutches of those who kill? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127598\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Also, what will it do about our citizen, who is still a prisoner of war and who was a child soldier when he was taken prisoner?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127599\" data-originallang=\"fr\">What is our position on child soldiers, and what kind of example will we set in Mr. Khadr's case?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1127595\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, dans un autre ordre d'id\u00e9e, nous avons rencontr\u00e9 \u2014 je parle de ma vie ant\u00e9rieure, lorsque j'\u00e9tais enseignant \u2014 des coop\u00e9rants qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, canadiens et m\u00eame allemands au sujet de la terrible trag\u00e9die du g\u00e9nocide au Rwanda. Un des \u00e9l\u00e9ments qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 le plus \u00e9mouvant et qui avait \u00e9norm\u00e9ment touch\u00e9 les jeunes et les \u00e9l\u00e8ves du secondaire, et en fait qui touche beaucoup les parents que nous sommes \u2014 pour la vaste majorit\u00e9 d'entre nous \u2014, c'est la question des enfants soldats. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127596\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Au Canada, nous avons l'exemple d'un enfant soldat, du moins, l'exemple d'un individu qui \u00e9tait enfant soldat au moment o\u00f9 le conflit a \u00e9clat\u00e9 en Afghanistan, et qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 fait prisonnier. Il s'agit d'Omar Khadr.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127597\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je sais que des questions ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pos\u00e9es \u00e0 ce sujet, mais je veux entendre certaines r\u00e9ponses. Quelles d\u00e9marches sont entreprises par le gouvernement actuel pour justement aider les pays qui ont des enfants soldats \u00e0 r\u00e9habiliter ces derniers et \u00e0 les sortir des griffes de ceux qui g\u00e8rent la mort? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127598\" data-originallang=\"fr\">De plus, que fera le gouvernement relativement \u00e0 notre citoyen qui est encore prisonnier de guerre, et qui \u00e9tait un enfant soldat lorsqu'il a \u00e9t\u00e9 fait prisonnier? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1127599\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quelle est donc notre position sur les enfants soldats, et comment allons-nous donner l'exemple en ce qui concerne la situation de M. Khadr?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/5/29/richard-nadeau-7/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/richard-nadeau/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/521/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2499457",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Foreign Affairs and International Trade--Main Estimates, 2008-09",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/5/29/",
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}