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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2009-06-15 18:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Anthony Rota",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1556389\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the hon. member speaks about enhancements. I am glad that he thinks there are enhancements there, but there are still people who are waiting for their cheques. People are waiting for their cheques for longer than two weeks, four weeks, six weeks. Some are even waiting longer than eight weeks. That is where the problem lies.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1556390\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is about people who are vulnerable. They need the help right away. It is not at the end, where they get that extra five weeks. The five weeks are appreciated, but they have to get the money upfront. That is where they need it most. The money has to be invested in staff who can process the claims more quickly and get the money out.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1556391\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will wrap it up there. However, I want to make the point that there are still 58 different regions across the country that have different ratings. I would like to think that we are all equal Canadians, not different levels of Canadians.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1556389\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parl\u00e9 d'am\u00e9liorations. Je suis heureux qu'il pense que le gouvernement a apport\u00e9 des am\u00e9liorations, mais il y a encore des gens qui attendent leur premier ch\u00e8que. Les gens attendent plus de deux, quatre ou six semaines avant de recevoir un ch\u00e8que. Certains attendent m\u00eame plus de huit semaines. Voil\u00e0 o\u00f9 se situe le probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1556390\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est ici question de gens vuln\u00e9rables, qui ont besoin d'aide imm\u00e9diatement. Bien s\u00fbr, ils recevront cinq semaines de prestations suppl\u00e9mentaires, et ils l'appr\u00e9cient, mais ils ont besoin de prestations sur-le-champ. Il faut investir dans l'embauche de personnel afin d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le traitement des demandes et le versement des prestations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1556391\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vais terminer ici. J'aimerais souligner que, au pays, il existe encore 58 r\u00e9gions qui ont des seuils d'admissibilit\u00e9 diff\u00e9rents. J'aimerais croire que les Canadiens sont tous \u00e9gaux, non qu'il existe diff\u00e9rentes classes de Canadiens.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/6/15/anthony-rota-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/anthony-rota/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1399/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2836149",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Employment Insurance",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/6/15/",
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}