Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2013-02-13 14:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt\u2014Juan de Fuca, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt\u2014Juan de Fuca, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3183059\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, this past Monday was the first Family Day in British Columbia. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183060\" data-originallang=\"en\">In my riding, municipalities celebrated this day with a free pancake breakfast in Langford, a family fun swim in Esquimalt and family hockey games at the Sooke leisure complex, to name just a few.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183061\" data-originallang=\"en\">While we welcome Family Day as a day to spend time together as families, we must now come together to do the work necessary to help those families who struggle every day to make ends meet. B.C. has the second-highest child poverty rate at 14.3%. The living wage in my riding is $18.07, but the minimum wage is still only $10.25, and the use of food banks in British Columbia is increasing twice as fast as the national average.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183062\" data-originallang=\"en\">Fortunately there are groups such as the Mustard Seed food bank, the Coalition to End Homelessness and the Community Social Planning Council that are working hard to find solutions to the real challenges faced by all the diverse families in my riding, challenges in getting child care, affordable housing, food security, sustainable transportation and a living wage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183063\" data-originallang=\"en\">The work that these groups do will make a real difference for families in Esquimalt\u2014Juan de Fuca in all these areas where the Conservative government is falling so short.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3183059\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, lundi dernier, la Colombie-Britannique c\u00e9l\u00e9brait pour la premi\u00e8re fois le jour de la Famille.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183060\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les municipalit\u00e9s de ma circonscription ont f\u00eat\u00e9 de diff\u00e9rentes fa\u00e7ons: d\u00e9jeuner de cr\u00eapes gratuit \u00e0 Langford, natation r\u00e9cr\u00e9ative pour toute la famille \u00e0 Esquimalt et parties de hockey familiales au complexe r\u00e9cr\u00e9atif de Sooke, entre autres. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183061\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous nous r\u00e9jouissons de l'institution du jour de la Famille, qui permet aux familles de passer du temps ensemble, mais nous devons maintenant conjuguer nos efforts pour aider les familles qui, chaque jour, se d\u00e9m\u00e8nent afin de joindre les deux bouts. \u00c0 14,3 %, le taux de pauvret\u00e9 chez les enfants en Colombie-Britannique est le deuxi\u00e8me en importance au pays. Le salaire de subsistance s'\u00e9tablit \u00e0 18,07 $ dans ma circonscription, mais le salaire minimum n'est toujours que de 10,25 $, et le taux d'utilisation des banques alimentaires augmente deux fois plus rapidement en Colombie-Britannique que la moyenne nationale. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183062\" data-originallang=\"en\">Heureusement, il existe des groupes comme la banque alimentaire Mustard Seed, la coalition pour mettre fin \u00e0 l'itin\u00e9rance et le conseil de planification sociale communautaire, qui travaillent \u00e0 trouver des solutions aux difficult\u00e9s r\u00e9elles auxquelles se heurtent les diverses familles de ma circonscription pour obtenir des services de garde, un logement abordable, la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire, des moyens de transport durables et un salaire d\u00e9cent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3183063\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le travail qu'accomplissent ces groupes changera vraiment les choses pour les familles d'Esquimalt\u2014Juan de Fuca dans tous ces domaines, dans lesquels le gouvernement conservateur ne r\u00e9pond pas aux attentes. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/2/13/randall-garrison-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/randall-garrison/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4103/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7888566",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Poverty",
        "fr": "La pauvret\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/2/13/",
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}