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{
"time": "2009-10-05 15:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jim Maloway (Elmwood\u2014Transcona, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1609401\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when we first went into Afghanistan, it was under a Liberal government, as I recall. At that time people in the public generally felt that we were there in a peacekeeping role. That was the role of our armed forces. Many people were surprised to find out that our role had changed to active fighting in the most dangerous area of the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1609402\" data-originallang=\"en\">Just today I heard a military source on the radio claiming that leaving in 2011 would be viewed as abandoning Afghanistan. We can see the campaign has already started to prolong our involvement in this war without end. We should not forget that this war has been going on for many, many years. The Russians were in there for a number of years and other countries have had deep involvement and it has never concluded.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1609403\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to applaud the member for his excellent presentation and ask him whether he could review these options that he has talked about and explain them in a little more detail.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1609401\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, lorsque nous sommes intervenus en Afghanistan au d\u00e9but, c'\u00e9tait sous un gouvernement lib\u00e9ral, si je me souviens bien. \u00c0 ce moment-l\u00e0, la population en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral pensait que nous y exercions un r\u00f4le de maintien de la paix. Voil\u00e0 le r\u00f4le que nos forces arm\u00e9es assumaient. Beaucoup de gens ont \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris d'apprendre que notre r\u00f4le avait chang\u00e9 et que nous participions activement aux combats dans la r\u00e9gion la plus dangereuse du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1609402\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, j'ai entendu une source militaire affirmer \u00e0 la radio que le fait de quitter l'Afghanistan en 2011 serait per\u00e7u comme un abandon du pays. Nous voyons que la campagne visant \u00e0 prolonger notre participation \u00e0 cette guerre interminable a d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9. Il ne faut pas oublier que cette guerre tra\u00eene depuis bon nombre d'ann\u00e9es. Les Russes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u00e0-bas pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es et d'autres pays y sont activement intervenus et cela n'a jamais pris fin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1609403\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 f\u00e9liciter le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de son excellente intervention et je lui demanderais de passer en revue les options dont il a parl\u00e9 et de les expliquer plus en d\u00e9tail.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/10/5/jim-maloway-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jim-maloway/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1111/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2877797",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Foreign Affairs and International Development",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/10/5/",
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}