Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-05-06 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Larry Bagnell (Yukon, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1073207\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, even before the terrible cyclone, there was a huge humanitarian crisis brewing on the Thai-Burma border. Shortly, 140,000 refugees, including thousands of children, the elderly, and pregnant women, could be facing malnutrition, if not starvation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073208\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Thai-Burma border consortium, through CIDA and Inter Pares, delivers food rations to those Burmese refugees.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073209\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, since I visited those refugees in January, rice prices have tripled and there is a $6 million shortfall. People will have to be cut from the 2,000 calories a day needed to survive to less than 1,000 calories. Their diet of rice, beans, fishpaste, oil, salt, sugar and flour will have to be reduced to just rice and salt.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073210\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could members imagine going home every day and at every meal eating only rice and salt, and half enough, at that?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073211\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canadians, it would be shameful if we stood by and let this disaster occur. CIDA needs to give an extra $1 million each year to inspire other donor countries and prevent a humanitarian disaster.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073212\" data-originallang=\"en\">For Prime Minister in exile Sein Win, who is in Ottawa today, we ask that the Canadian government please act.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1073207\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, avant m\u00eame le terrible cyclone, il existait d\u00e9j\u00e0 une grave crise humanitaire \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re entre la Tha\u00eflande et la Birmanie. Dans peu de temps, 140 000 r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, y compris des milliers d'enfants, des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es et des femmes enceintes, pourraient conna\u00eetre la malnutrition, sinon la famine.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073208\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans le cadre du consortium frontalier Tha\u00eflande-Birmanie, l'ACDI et Inter Pares fournissent des rations alimentaires aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s birmans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073209\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, depuis que j'ai visit\u00e9 ces r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, en janvier dernier, le prix du riz a tripl\u00e9 et il manque 6 millions de dollars. Il faudra r\u00e9duire les rations de 2 000 calories par jour qu'il faut pour survivre \u00e0 moins de 1 000 calories. Le r\u00e9gime, actuellement compos\u00e9 de riz, de f\u00e8ves, de p\u00e2te de poisson, d'huile, de sel, de sucre et de farine, devra \u00eatre compos\u00e9 uniquement de riz et de sel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073210\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s peuvent-ils s'imaginer rentrer chez eux et n'avoir \u00e0 manger \u00e0 tous les repas que du riz et du sel, et juste la moiti\u00e9 d'une ration en plus?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073211\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canadiens, il serait honteux que nous restions sans rien faire pendant que se joue cette catastrophe! L'ACDI doit donner 1 million de dollars de plus chaque ann\u00e9e pour inspirer d'autres pays donateurs et emp\u00eacher une catastrophe humanitaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1073212\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au nom du premier ministre en exil, Sein Win, qui est \u00e0 Ottawa aujourd'hui, nous prions instamment le gouvernement du Canada d'agir.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/5/6/larry-bagnell-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/larry-bagnell/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1844/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2454352",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Burma",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/5/6/",
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