Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2009-02-12 13:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Linda Duncan (Edmonton\u2014Strathcona, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1283630\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to hear from our member for <a data-HoCid=\"128491\" href=\"/politicians/brian-masse/\" title=\"Brian Masse\">Windsor West</a>, and I fully endorse his comments on the bill. I, too, am very disturbed that the government did not choose to come forward with a much larger package.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1283631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Since becoming elected last October as a member of Parliament, I have had organization after organization approach me looking for assistance because of the bureaucracy and red tape the government has imposed on them. These organizations serve the disabled. One organization had been a charitable organization for 20 years, but it missed one filing deadline and had its charitable status taken away. We have organizations that serve the Latin American communities. These are groups of new Canadians that, instead of making a lot of money in Alberta like a many other people, are dedicating their time to volunteer organizations. They are being harassed by the red tape of CIDA because they missed one deadline. Organizations like Preserve Agricultural Land in Alberta was founded simply to tell people the value of preserving agricultural land and it was denied charitable status.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1283632\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Would the member please address the bigger issue of how we deal with charitable status and enable people who help Canadians to raise funds?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1283630\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je suis tr\u00e8s heureuse d'avoir entendu notre d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"128491\" href=\"/politicians/brian-masse/\" title=\"Brian Masse\">Windsor-Ouest</a> s'exprimer et je souscris pleinement \u00e0 ce qu'il a dit du projet de loi. Je trouve, moi aussi, tr\u00e8s alarmant que le gouvernement n'ait pas jug\u00e9 bon de proposer un ensemble beaucoup plus vaste de mesures. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1283631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis que j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lue d\u00e9put\u00e9e en octobre dernier, un organisme apr\u00e8s l'autre est venu me demander de l'aide \u00e0 cause des tracasseries administratives et bureaucratiques que leur impose le gouvernement. Ces organismes oeuvrent aupr\u00e8s des personnes handicap\u00e9es. L'un d'eux avait depuis 20 ans le statut d'organisme de bienfaisance, mais l'a perdu parce qu'il a produit des documents en retard. Il y a des organismes qui oeuvrent aupr\u00e8s des communaut\u00e9s latino-am\u00e9ricaines. Ces n\u00e9o-Canadiens consacrent leur temps au travail b\u00e9n\u00e9vole plut\u00f4t qu'\u00e0 faire un coup d'argent en Alberta comme bien d'autres le font. Ils sont tourment\u00e9s par toutes les tracasseries administratives \u00e0 l'ACDI parce que, une fois, une \u00e9ch\u00e9ance n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 respect\u00e9e. Des organismes comme Preserve Agricultural Land, soci\u00e9t\u00e9 albertaine pour la pr\u00e9servation des terres agricoles, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9es \u00e0 la seule fin d'informer le public de l'importance de prot\u00e9ger nos terres agricoles; pourtant, on leur refuse le statut d'organisme de bienfaisance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1283632\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 aurait-il l'obligeance de nous dire comment on g\u00e8re le statut d'organisme de bienfaisance et comment permettre aux Canadiens qui aident leurs concitoyens de r\u00e9unir des fonds? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/2/12/linda-duncan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/linda-duncan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1029/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2603165",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/2/12/",
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}