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{
    "time": "2009-09-30 15:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Larry Miller (Bruce\u2014Grey\u2014Owen Sound, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"1604551\"> moved for leave to introduce Bill <a data-HoCid=\"4020692\" href=\"/bills/40-2/C-450/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act (rural mail delivery)\">C-450, An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act (rural mail delivery)</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1604552\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to introduce this private member's bill. As everyone in the House knows, a current review of rural mailboxes across the country is going on because of a court order. As a result, a number of mailboxes in rural communities have had to be moved, some at great expense.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1604553\" data-originallang=\"en\">For example, I have a senior lady, in her 80s, in my riding who was asked to move her mailbox. She neither had the ability to do it herself nor to hire someone. This bill would simply change the act so that when a mailbox is ordered moved under the Canada Post Corporation Act it would cover the cost.</p>\n<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"12\"> (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) </p>",
        "fr": "<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"1604551\"> demande \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"4020692\" href=\"/bills/40-2/C-450/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation Act (rural mail delivery)\">C-450, Loi modifiant la Loi sur la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne des postes (livraison du courrier en milieu rural)</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1604552\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis tr\u00e8s heureux de pr\u00e9senter ce projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire. Comme tout le monde \u00e0 la Chambre le sait, toutes les bo\u00eetes aux lettres rurales au pays font actuellement l'objet d'un examen en raison d'une ordonnance de tribunal. Par cons\u00e9quent, il a fallu d\u00e9placer un certain nombre de bo\u00eetes aux lettres dans des collectivit\u00e9s rurales, parfois \u00e0 grands frais.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1604553\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par exemple, une dame de ma circonscription \u00e2g\u00e9e d'environ 80 ans a \u00e9t\u00e9 pri\u00e9e de d\u00e9placer sa bo\u00eete aux lettres. Elle n'\u00e9tait pas en mesure de le faire elle-m\u00eame et n'avait pas les moyens d'engager quelqu'un. Ce projet de loi modifierait simplement la loi, afin que les frais associ\u00e9s au d\u00e9placement d'une bo\u00eete aux lettres, exig\u00e9e en vertu de la Loi sur la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne des postes, soient d\u00e9fray\u00e9s.</p>\n<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"12\"> (Les motions sont r\u00e9put\u00e9es adopt\u00e9es, le projet de loi est lu pour la premi\u00e8re fois et imprim\u00e9.)</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/9/30/larry-miller-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/larry-miller/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/512/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2872361",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Post Corporation Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/9/30/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F9%2F30%2F"
    }
}