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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2013-11-28 10:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Glenn Thibeault",
"fr": "M. Glenn Thibeault"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3490231\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague should not worry about apologizing. I know that we are on different sides of the House, but what we are having is a good debate on a subject that is important for all Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3490232\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we are seeing in the bill would change a system that is working. If we are actually helping individuals who have addictions, then let us keep moving forward on this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3490233\" data-originallang=\"en\">InSite, located in Vancouver, is the only site in Canada. Since it opened, we have seen a 35% decrease in overdose deaths. InSite has been shown to decrease crime, communicable disease infection rates, and relapse rates for drugs users. This is coming from the community. The community is involved in it. We do not want to make it more onerous and leave it in the minister's hands to make an arbitrary decision, when the community is already saying that this site is working for them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3490234\" data-originallang=\"en\">We need to continue to promote facilities like InSite to help those who are addicted.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3490231\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 n'a pas \u00e0 s'excuser. Je sais que nous appartenons \u00e0 des partis diff\u00e9rents, mais au moins, nous participons \u00e0 un bon d\u00e9bat sur un sujet qui est important pour tous les Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3490232\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi viendrait changer un syst\u00e8me qui fonctionne. Si ce syst\u00e8me aide vraiment les toxicomanes, continuons sur la m\u00eame voie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3490233\" data-originallang=\"en\">Insite, situ\u00e9 \u00e0 Vancouver, est le seul centre au Canada. Depuis son ouverture, le nombre de d\u00e9c\u00e8s par surdose a diminu\u00e9 de 35 %. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 prouv\u00e9 qu'Insite r\u00e9duit la criminalit\u00e9, le taux d'infection par des maladies transmissibles, et le taux de rechute. C'est la communaut\u00e9 elle-m\u00eame qui le dit. Elle participe \u00e0 la chose. Nous ne voulons pas alourdir le processus et permettre au ministre de prendre une d\u00e9cision arbitraire alors que la communaut\u00e9 affirme d\u00e9j\u00e0 que le centre est dans son int\u00e9r\u00eat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3490234\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il faut continuer \u00e0 promouvoir des installations comme Insite pour aider les toxicomanes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/11/28/glenn-thibeault-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/glenn-thibeault/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1205/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8164150",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Respect for Communities Act",
"fr": "Loi sur le respect des collectivit\u00e9s"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/11/28/",
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}
}