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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2012-04-26 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. Hedy Fry (Vancouver-Centre, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2811423\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, a responsible government would not put the health and safety of its citizens at risk. The Conservative government chose to make massive cuts of $56 million to food inspection and $68 million to the Public Health Agency, thus compromising food safety and endangering Canadian lives. Three cabinet ministers in the current federal government were in Mr. Harris's Ontario cabinet when massive public health and environmental cuts caused the tragic Walkerton incident. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811424\" data-originallang=\"en\">Surely they warned the <a data-HoCid=\"111560\" href=\"/politicians/gerry-ritz/\" title=\"Gerry Ritz\">Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food</a> against his dangerous decision. Why did he not listen?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2811423\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, un gouvernement responsable ne mettrait pas en danger la sant\u00e9 et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des citoyens. En r\u00e9duisant respectivement de 56 millions de dollars et de 68 millions de dollars les budgets de l'Agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments et de l'Agence de la sant\u00e9 publique du Canada, le gouvernement conservateur a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d'imposer d'\u00e9normes compressions qui menacent la salubrit\u00e9 des aliments et qui mettent la vie des Canadiens en danger. Trois ministres de l'actuel Cabinet f\u00e9d\u00e9ral faisaient partie du Cabinet ontarien \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque o\u00f9 le gouvernement Harris a impos\u00e9 d'\u00e9normes compressions dans les secteurs de la sant\u00e9 publique et de l'environnement, ce qui a men\u00e9 \u00e0 la trag\u00e9die de Walkerton.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2811424\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces ministres ont s\u00fbrement mis en garde le <a data-HoCid=\"111560\" href=\"/politicians/gerry-ritz/\" title=\"Gerry Ritz\">ministre de l\u2019Agriculture et de l\u2019Agroalimentaire</a> au sujet de sa dangereuse d\u00e9cision. Pourquoi ne les a-t-il pas \u00e9cout\u00e9s?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2012/4/26/hedy-fry-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/hedy-fry/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3102/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7538109",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Agriculture and Agri-Food",
"fr": "L'agriculture et l'agroalimentaire"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2012/4/26/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2012%2F4%2F26%2F"
}
}