{"time": "2014-01-30 14:15:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Pierre Nantel (Longueuil\u2014Pierre-Boucher, NDP)", "fr": "M. Pierre Nantel (Longueuil\u2014Pierre-Boucher, NPD)"}, "content": {"en": "

Mr. Speaker, we knew that the Conservatives could be heartless, but we never would have thought that they would stoop so low in their treatment of veterans.

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Veterans have a simple request: do not close service centres. These brave men and women, who put their lives in danger for our country, are not asking for the moon. They are simply asking to be treated with respect and to have access to decent services.

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What was the Minister of Veterans Affairs' response to this? He put on a real show of poor taste and bad manners. He showed up an hour late to the meeting and insulted those who dared make demands. Then he showed up here with his crocodile tears over his lateness, hoping everyone would forget. Veterans have not forgotten. They are still angry with the minister, and his anti-union diatribe will not change anything.

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I remind members that this is the same minister who said that the problem with Haiti was that there was too much garbage in the streets, and this is the same prime minister who decided that it would be a good idea to have this genius in charge of our veterans.

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Our veterans deserve better, better than this minister's insults and lack of respect.

", "fr": "

Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, on savait que les conservateurs pouvaient \u00eatre sans coeur, mais jamais on n'aurait pu croire qu'ils descendraient aussi bas que ce qu'ils ont fait dans le dossier des v\u00e9t\u00e9rans.

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Ce que les v\u00e9t\u00e9rans demandent est simple: ne pas fermer de centre de service. Ces valeureux hommes et femmes, qui ont mis leur vie en danger pour notre pays, ne demandent pas la lune, mais simplement d'\u00eatre trait\u00e9s avec respect et d'avoir acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des services respectables.

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Comment le ministre des Anciens Combattants r\u00e9agit-il dans une situation pareille? Il r\u00e9pond en vrai champion du mauvais go\u00fbt et du manque de savoir-vivre. Il se pr\u00e9sente une heure en retard \u00e0 la r\u00e9union et insulte ceux qui osent faire des revendications. Ensuite, il vient pleurer ici avec des larmes de crocodiles sur son retard et esp\u00e8re que tout le monde oubliera. Or les v\u00e9t\u00e9rans n'oublient pas. Ils sont toujours en col\u00e8re contre le ministre. Sa diatribe anti-syndicale n'y changera rien.

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Je me permets de rappeler \u00e0 tous que ce ministre est le m\u00eame qui pensait que le probl\u00e8me en Ha\u00efti, c'\u00e9tait le trop-plein de vidanges dans les rues, et c'est ce m\u00eame premier ministre qui s'est dit que ce serait une bonne id\u00e9e d'avoir cette \u00ab 100 watts \u00bb en charge de nos anciens combattants.

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Nos v\u00e9t\u00e9rans m\u00e9ritent mieux, mieux que les insultes et le manque de respect de ce ministre.

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