Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-05-08 15:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Shawn Murphy (Charlottetown, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1080780\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when I commenced my comments before question period, I talked about what I consider to be the seriousness of this issue. I talked about the statistics that were released by Statistics Canada last week. I talked about the consequences to this country, our society, the economy and the people who live here if this trend is allowed to continue. I talked about the need to come forward with a national, comprehensive poverty strategy in conjunction with the 10 provinces and 3 territories.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1080781\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have listened to the debate here today. Some of the comments do disturb me somewhat when we talk about hard-working Canadians. I want to remind members in the House that many of the people who are in poverty or in the low income cut-off range are hard-working Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1080782\" data-originallang=\"en\">I talked about what I have seen from the government over the last two years and four months, with program cuts that have been right across the board. I talked about the gutting of the early childhood programs that did exist, the cutting of some of the supports that are so needed for low income Canadians, such as public transit, affordable housing, and the cutbacks to the literacy programs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1080783\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I also mentioned what I consider to be the destruction of the fiscal framework and the inability of the government to respond to situations that come up on a day to day basis. We have one before us today: the situation in Burma. It is a crisis. I believe there are 22,000 people deceased. It is expected that another 25,000 are missing, presumed to be deceased or badly injured. I believe the announcement by the government was a support package of $2 million.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1080780\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, au d\u00e9but de ma pr\u00e9sentation avant la p\u00e9riode des questions, j'ai parl\u00e9 de la gravit\u00e9 de la situation. J'ai parl\u00e9 des statistiques publi\u00e9es par Statistique Canada la semaine derni\u00e8re. J'ai parl\u00e9 des cons\u00e9quences qu'entra\u00eenerait le maintien de cette tendance pour le Canada, la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne, notre \u00e9conomie et les Canadiens. J'ai parl\u00e9 de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'adopter, de concert avec les dix provinces et les trois territoires, une strat\u00e9gie nationale compl\u00e8te de lutte contre la pauvret\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1080781\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 les d\u00e9put\u00e9s qui sont intervenus dans le d\u00e9bat aujourd'hui. Certaines observations me d\u00e9rangent quelque peu lorsqu'il est question des travailleurs canadiens. Je rappelle aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s qu'il y a aussi des travailleurs parmi les Canadiens qui vivent dans la pauvret\u00e9 ou en-de\u00e7\u00e0 du seuil de faible revenu.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1080782\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai dit ce que le gouvernement a fait au cours des 28 derniers mois. Il a sabr\u00e9 dans les programmes \u00e0 tous les niveaux. Il a d\u00e9mantel\u00e9 les programmes d'\u00e9ducation pr\u00e9scolaire que nous avions, il a sabr\u00e9 dans les programmes d'aide dont les Canadiens \u00e0 faible revenu ont grandement besoin, des programmes comme le transport en commun, le logement abordable et les programmes d'alphab\u00e9tisation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1080783\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai aussi signal\u00e9 ce que je qualifie de destruction du cadre financier de m\u00eame que l'incapacit\u00e9 du gouvernement de r\u00e9agir aux urgences. La situation en Birmanie en est un exemple. C'est une catastrophe. Il y aurait 22 000 de morts. On dit aussi que 25 000 de personnes manquent \u00e0 l'appel; elles sont probablement mortes ou gri\u00e8vement bless\u00e9es. Je crois comprendre que le gouvernement a offert une aide de 2 millions de dollars.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/5/8/shawn-murphy-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/shawn-murphy/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1450/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2462639",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion--The Economy",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/5/8/",
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