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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2013-12-10 21:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Robert Sopuck",
"fr": "M. Robert Sopuck"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3531851\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Chair, even though we may be opposite sides of the House, I have enormous respect for the member and what he does. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3531852\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada, with 1.3 million people of Ukrainian descent, has the third largest Ukrainian population in the world, after Ukraine and Russia. People have an extraordinary level of interest in what is going on in Ukraine and it is reciprocated.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3531853\" data-originallang=\"en\">I sat in on a meeting of the foreign affairs committee and I asked the delegation what the Ukrainian government thought of what Canada thought. It is extraordinary the influence we have there. We have to use it. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3531854\" data-originallang=\"en\">We can never lose sight of our principles, where we came from, what matters and what counts: freedom, democracy and the rule of law. We stand for that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3531851\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, m\u00eame si nous ne sommes pas du m\u00eame c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la Chambre, j'\u00e9prouve un grand respect pour le d\u00e9put\u00e9 et pour le travail qu'il accomplit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3531852\" data-originallang=\"en\">Apr\u00e8s l'Ukraine et la Russie, c'est le Canada, avec ses 1,3 million d'habitants d'origine ukrainienne, qui a la plus importante population ukrainienne au monde. Les gens portent un int\u00e9r\u00eat extraordinaire \u00e0 ce qui se passe en Ukraine, et cela est r\u00e9ciproque.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3531853\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au cours d'une r\u00e9union du Comit\u00e9 des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, j'ai demand\u00e9 \u00e0 la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation ce que le gouvernement ukrainien pensait de la position du Canada. L'influence que nous avons ici est extraordinaire. Nous devons l'utiliser. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3531854\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous ne devons jamais perdre de vue nos principes, d'o\u00f9 nous venons, ce qui importe et ce qui compte: la libert\u00e9, la d\u00e9mocratie et la primaut\u00e9 du droit. C'est ce en quoi nous croyons.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/12/10/robert-sopuck-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/robert-sopuck/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4033/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8194814",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Situation in Ukraine",
"fr": "La situation en Ukraine"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/12/10/",
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}
}