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{
"time": "2014-11-27 15:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, GP)",
"fr": "Mme Elizabeth May (Saanich\u2014Gulf Islands, PV)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3911079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is quite an honour today to participate in this debate. It is one of the good days in this place when we feel we are making progress to right a wrong, and it is a historic wrong.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911080\" data-originallang=\"en\">I thank my hon. colleague for again mentioning Vanessa's law.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911081\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I was quite struck when Bill C-17 was first tabled to realize that even after the thalidomide scandal, the <a data-HoCid=\"194628\" href=\"/politicians/rona-ambrose/\" title=\"Rona Ambrose\">Minister of Health</a> in this country lacked the power to recall a pharmaceutical drug until we passed Vanessa's law in this place. That is decades of inaction against an obvious threat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911082\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have not yet done enough as a society and as a Parliament to ensure transparency and proper regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. We have further to go, although Vanessa's law represents a significant turning point in being willing to insist on recalling drugs and ensuring that the positive and negative drug trial results are published, to avoid a future thalidomide disaster. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911083\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to thank my hon. colleague and all MPs in this place for making some progress for both the victims of thalidomide and toward avoiding a future disaster of that order.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911084\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We really need to control the pharmaceutical industry.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3911079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est tout un honneur de participer au d\u00e9bat d'aujourd'hui. Nous sommes en train de vivre l'une de ces bonnes journ\u00e9es o\u00f9 nous avons l'impression, dans cette enceinte, que nous sommes sur la bonne voie pour r\u00e9parer une erreur. Il s'agit bel et bien d'une erreur historique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911080\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie mon coll\u00e8gue d'avoir parl\u00e9 encore une fois de la Loi de Vanessa.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911081\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque le projet de loi C-17 a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9pos\u00e9, j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 frapp\u00e9e de voir que, m\u00eame apr\u00e8s le scandale de la thalidomide, le <a data-HoCid=\"194628\" href=\"/politicians/rona-ambrose/\" title=\"Rona Ambrose\">ministre de la Sant\u00e9</a> n'avait toujours pas le pouvoir, dans ce pays, d'ordonner le rappel d'un m\u00e9dicament. Ce fut le cas jusqu'\u00e0 ce que nous adoptions la Loi de Vanessa. Auparavant, nous \u00e9tions rest\u00e9s les bras crois\u00e9s pendant des d\u00e9cennies malgr\u00e9 le danger \u00e9vident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911082\" data-originallang=\"en\">Notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 et notre Parlement n'en ont pas encore assez fait pour garantir la transparence de l'industrie pharmaceutique et pour la r\u00e9glementer comme il se doit. Nous avons encore des \u00e9tapes \u00e0 franchir, bien que la Loi de Vanessa repr\u00e9sente un virage important. Il est d\u00e9sormais possible d'ordonner le rappel d'un m\u00e9dicament et de veiller \u00e0 ce que les r\u00e9sultats des essais cliniques, n\u00e9gatifs ou positifs, soient publi\u00e9s, de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 \u00e9viter que ne se r\u00e9p\u00e8te le drame de la thalidomide.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911083\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais remercier mon coll\u00e8gue et tous les autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'avoir r\u00e9alis\u00e9 des progr\u00e8s dans le but de venir en aide aux victimes de la thalidomide, et dans le but d'\u00e9viter que ne se r\u00e9p\u00e8te un tel drame \u00e0 l'avenir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3911084\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous devons vraiment surveiller l'industrie pharmaceutique.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/11/27/elizabeth-may-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/elizabeth-may/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4108/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8529907",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Survivors of Thalidomide",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les survivants de la thalidomide"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/11/27/",
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}