Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2011-12-05 20:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Hedy Fry",
        "fr": "L'hon. Hedy Fry"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2629738\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Chair, actually there is a website called the donation group. It talks about organ and tissue donation and about some of the myths that I mentioned, such as religion, chronic diseases, age, et cetera. It answers those questions and it points where to go if we are looking for donations. However, this is not good enough, because individuals and their families cannot make it happen. Even physicians cannot make it happen unless there is a matching list.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2629739\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member talked about British Columbia; it has a good program, and there is also a good one in Ontario, but she is absolutely right. One of the things we have to remember as a federation is that we cannot always say that this is so-and-so's jurisdiction. There is a role for federal government leadership in terms of setting up and creating best practices, creating a clearing house for best practices and creating a national registry to help someone needing an organ in B.C. to know that there is one in Alberta. Would it not be sad to know that someone could have had an organ and lived if they had known there was one in Alberta that he or she could get? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2629740\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is really important for the federal government not to shirk its responsibility in this area.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2629738\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, en fait, il y a un site Web appel\u00e9 \u00ab donation group \u00bb qui porte sur les dons d'organes et de tissus humains et sur les mythes dont j'ai parl\u00e9, comme la religion, les maladies chroniques, l'\u00e2ge, etc. On y fournit des r\u00e9ponses \u00e0 ces questions et on y indique o\u00f9 s'adresser si on a besoin d'un don. Toutefois, cela n'est pas suffisant, car les personnes et leurs familles ne peuvent agir seules. M\u00eame les m\u00e9decins ne peuvent rien faire, \u00e0 moins qu'il y ait une liste de compatibilit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2629739\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e a indiqu\u00e9 que la Colombie-Britannique poss\u00e8de un bon programme, tout comme l'Ontario, et elle a tout \u00e0 fait raison. Nous devons nous rappeler, en tant que f\u00e9d\u00e9ration, que nous ne pouvons pas toujours dire que tel dossier rel\u00e8ve de telle ou telle autorit\u00e9. Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral doit ouvrir la voie et faire preuve de leadership en favorisant les pratiques exemplaires, en cr\u00e9ant un centre d'\u00e9change d'information sur les pratiques exemplaires et un registre national. Il faut qu'une personne ayant besoin d'un organe en Colombie-Britannique puisse savoir qu'il y en a un en Alberta. Ne serait-il pas triste de savoir qu'une personne aurait pu recevoir un organe et survivre si elle avait su qu'il y en avait un pour elle en Alberta? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2629740\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est essentiel que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral assume ses responsabilit\u00e9s dans ce domaine.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2011/12/5/hedy-fry-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "5160988",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Organ Donations",
        "fr": "Les dons d'organes"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2011/12/5/",
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}