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{
"time": "2009-02-09 15:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Navdeep Bains (Mississauga\u2014Brampton South, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1273558\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I present a petition on behalf of my constituents. The petition is with respect to the genocide that is taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan, which has caused the deaths of approximately of 300,000 people and 2 million or more have been displaced. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273559\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners call upon the government to put pressure on the Sudanese government to allow for additional peacekeeping troops in that region, to pressure the Sudanese government to begin peace talks and to increase the land based humanitarian efforts in that region as well.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1273558\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je pr\u00e9sente une p\u00e9tition au nom de mes \u00e9lecteurs. Cette p\u00e9tition porte sur le g\u00e9nocide qui se d\u00e9roule actuellement au Soudan, dans la r\u00e9gion du Darfour, et qui aurait d\u00e9j\u00e0 caus\u00e9 la mort d'environ 300 000 personnes ainsi que le d\u00e9placement d'au moins 2 millions d'autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1273559\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement d'exercer des pressions sur le gouvernement du Soudan afin qu'il permette le d\u00e9ploiement de troupes de maintien de la paix additionnelles dans cette r\u00e9gion, qu'il entame des pourparlers de paix et qu'il augmente \u00e9galement les efforts de secours humanitaires terrestres dans la r\u00e9gion.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/2/9/navdeep-bains-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/navdeep-bains/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1391/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2590029",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Darfur",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/2/9/",
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}
}