Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2013-02-05 12:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg-Nord, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3170342\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to recognize this debate as an opportunity to show that employment insurance has been evolving, including when the name was changed from unemployment insurance in the 1990s. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3170343\" data-originallang=\"en\">In fact, the Liberal administration created the employment insurance benefits, recognizing the need to assist those who find themselves unemployed and needing income. It was Pierre Elliott Trudeau who expanded those benefits to include things such as maternity and sick benefits. Even in the last election, former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff talked about using benefits to provide for those who are providing care for family members.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3170344\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are many ideas out there, and history will show that the Liberal Party has been very progressive. We need to recognize employment insurance as a vital social program that needs to continue and needs to be modified so that it can actually fit the needs of Canadians and the economic situations in our country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3170345\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if the member might want to comment.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3170342\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il est important que nous voyions ce d\u00e9bat comme une occasion de montrer que l'assurance-emploi, autrefois appel\u00e9e \u00ab assurance-ch\u00f4mage \u00bb, a toujours \u00e9volu\u00e9, ayant notamment chang\u00e9 de nom dans les ann\u00e9es 1990.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3170343\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 vrai dire, c'est l'administration lib\u00e9rale qui a cr\u00e9\u00e9 les prestations d'assurance-emploi, consciente de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'aider les personnes qui se retrouvent sans emploi et ont besoin d'un revenu. C'est Pierre Elliott Trudeau qui a bonifi\u00e9 le programme en y ajoutant des prestations de maternit\u00e9 et des prestations de maladie. M\u00eame qu'aux derni\u00e8res \u00e9lections, l'ancien chef lib\u00e9ral Michael Ignatieff a parl\u00e9 de verser des prestations aux personnes qui prodiguent des soins \u00e0 un membre de leur famille.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3170344\" data-originallang=\"en\">Beaucoup d'id\u00e9es circulent et l'histoire montrera que le Parti lib\u00e9ral est tr\u00e8s progressiste. Nous devons consid\u00e9rer l'assurance-emploi comme un programme social essentiel qui doit \u00eatre maintenu et \u00eatre modifi\u00e9 pour qu'il puisse r\u00e9pondre aux besoins des Canadiens et s'adapter \u00e0 la situation \u00e9conomique du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3170345\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a quelque chose \u00e0 ajouter.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2013/2/5/kevin-lamoureux-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "7869770",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Employment Insurance",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L\u2019assurance-emploi"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2013/2/5/",
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    }
}