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{
"time": "2011-11-14 16:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Lib.)",
"fr": "Mme Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke-Nord, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2577806\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition regarding chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI. Canada has one of the highest rates of devastating multiple sclerosis in the world, with 55,000 to 75,000 Canadians suffering. Four hundred people die of MS each year, and the suicide rate among MS patients is many times that of the national population.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2577807\" data-originallang=\"en\">While the government has announced clinical trials for CCSVI, all we have right now is announcements. What we need is action. Canadians with MS cannot afford to wait, as any delay possibly means more damage. Therefore the petitioners call on the <a data-HoCid=\"128707\" href=\"/politicians/leona-aglukkaq/\" title=\"Leona Aglukkaq\">Minister of Health</a> to consult experts actively engaged in diagnosis and treatment of CCSVI, to undertake phase III clinical trials on an urgent basis with a large patient participation in multiple centres across Canada and to require follow-up care.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2577806\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai le plaisir de pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition portant sur l'insuffisance veineuse c\u00e9phalorachidienne chronique, ou IVCC. De 55 000 \u00e0 75 000 Canadiens sont atteints de scl\u00e9rose en plaques. Or, il s'agit d'un des taux les plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s du monde. Chaque ann\u00e9e, 400 personnes en meurent et le taux de suicide des personnes atteintes de scl\u00e9rose en plaques est plusieurs fois sup\u00e9rieur au taux de la population canadienne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2577807\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement a annonc\u00e9 la tenue d'essais cliniques sur les patients atteints d'IVCC, mais, pour l'instant, il n'y a que des annonces. Or, nous avons besoin de gestes concrets. Les Canadiens atteints de scl\u00e9rose en plaques ne peuvent pas se permettre d'attendre, car toute attente peut entra\u00eener des dommages suppl\u00e9mentaires. Par cons\u00e9quent, les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent \u00e0 la <a data-HoCid=\"128707\" href=\"/politicians/leona-aglukkaq/\" title=\"Leona Aglukkaq\">ministre de la Sant\u00e9</a> de consulter des experts ayant travaill\u00e9 activement au diagnostic et au traitement de l'IVCC, de proc\u00e9der d'urgence \u00e0 la phase III des essais cliniques sur un large bassin de patients dans divers centres d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du Canada et d'exiger que des soins de suivi soient administr\u00e9s. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/11/14/kirsty-duncan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kirsty-duncan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1028/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "4735405",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Multiple Sclerosis",
"fr": "La scl\u00e9rose en plaques"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/11/14/",
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}
}