Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-12-06 15:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jim Maloway (Elmwood\u2014Transcona, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2226982\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I have a petition signed by dozens of Canadians. It is a call to end Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2226983\" data-originallang=\"en\">In May 2008, Parliament passed a resolution to withdraw Canadian Forces by July 2011. The <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a>, with the agreement of the Liberal Party, broke his oft-repeated promise to honour the parliamentary motion. Furthermore, he refuses to put it to parliamentary vote in the House. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2226984\" data-originallang=\"en\">Committing a thousand soldiers to a training mission still presents a great danger to our troops and an unnecessary expense when our country is faced with a $56 billion deficit. The military mission has cost Canadians more than $18 billion so far, money that could have been used to improve health care and pensions of seniors in Canada. In addition, polls show that a clear majority of Canadians do not want Canada's military presence to continue after the scheduled removal date of July 2011.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2226985\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Therefore, the petitioners call upon the <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> to honour the will of Parliament and bring the troops home now.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2226982\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis ravi de pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition sign\u00e9e par des dizaines de Canadiens qui r\u00e9clament la fin de l'intervention militaire du Canada en Afghanistan. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2226983\" data-originallang=\"en\">En mai 2008, le Parlement a adopt\u00e9 une motion visant le retrait des Forces canadiennes d'ici juillet 2011. Le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a>, avec l'aval du Parti lib\u00e9ral, n'a pas tenu sa promesse de respecter la motion adopt\u00e9e par le Parlement et il refuse m\u00eame de la soumettre \u00e0 un vote \u00e0 la Chambre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2226984\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9ploiement de 1 000 soldats dans le cadre d'une mission de formation pr\u00e9sente quand m\u00eame des risques pour nos troupes. C'est aussi une d\u00e9pense inutile alors que nous sommes aux prises avec un d\u00e9ficit de 56 milliards de dollars. Jusqu'\u00e0 maintenant, la mission militaire a co\u00fbt\u00e9 aux Canadiens plus de 18 milliards de dollars, des milliards qui auraient pu servir \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer les soins de sant\u00e9 et \u00e0 bonifier les revenus de pension des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es au Canada. De plus, les sondages indiquent que la vaste majorit\u00e9 des Canadiens ne souhaitent pas que le Canada assure une pr\u00e9sence militaire au-del\u00e0 de la date butoir fix\u00e9e \u00e0 juillet 2011. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2226985\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par cons\u00e9quent, les p\u00e9titionnaires exhortent le <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> \u00e0 respecter la volont\u00e9 du Parlement et \u00e0 rapatrier d\u00e8s maintenant les troupes canadiennes</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/12/6/jim-maloway-11/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jim-maloway/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1111/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3629830",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Petitions",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Afghanistan",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/12/6/",
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