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{
"time": "2015-01-29 14:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Randy Kamp (Pitt Meadows\u2014Maple Ridge\u2014Mission, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Randy Kamp (Pitt Meadows\u2014Maple Ridge\u2014Mission, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3956990\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honour constituent Mike Sands, who passed away this month, four years after being diagnosed with ALS, a terrible disease that also claimed my grandfather's life many years ago. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956991\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mike, a psychiatric nurse, was an active, athletic, politically engaged community volunteer who also made trips to Malawi, Africa, with Project Wellness to improve the lives of orphans by drilling wells for clean drinking water.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956992\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mike lived life energetically and enthusiastically, but perhaps his greatest impact on those of us who knew him was his incredible courage and determination to embrace life in the face of death from a cruel, debilitating disease.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956993\" data-originallang=\"en\">His wife Nadine provides an inspiring account in her upcoming book of how the family held on to faith, hope, and love as they learned to let go.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956994\" data-originallang=\"en\">I invite my colleagues to honour Mike Sands' life by making a commitment to do all we can to find a cure for ALS.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3956990\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends la parole pour rendre hommage \u00e0 un \u00e9lecteur de ma circonscription, Mike Sands, qui est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 ce mois-ci, quatre ans apr\u00e8s avoir re\u00e7u le diagnostic de scl\u00e9rose lat\u00e9rale amyotrophique, une terrible maladie qui a aussi co\u00fbt\u00e9 la vie \u00e0 mon grand-p\u00e8re, il y a de nombreuses ann\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956991\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mike, qui \u00e9tait infirmier psychiatrique, \u00e9tait un b\u00e9n\u00e9vole actif, athl\u00e9tique et politiquement engag\u00e9 qui est all\u00e9 plusieurs fois au Malawi, en Afrique, avec l'organisme Project Wellness, pour am\u00e9liorer la qualit\u00e9 de vie d'orphelins en creusant des puits d'eau potable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956992\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mike mordait dans la vie, mais ce qui a peut-\u00eatre le plus impressionn\u00e9 ceux qui le connaissaient, c'est son incroyable courage et sa d\u00e9termination \u00e0 prendre la vie \u00e0 bras-le-corps m\u00eame en sachant qu'il \u00e9tait condamn\u00e9 par une maladie cruelle et d\u00e9bilitante.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956993\" data-originallang=\"en\">Son \u00e9pouse, Nadine, raconte de mani\u00e8re inspirante, dans un livre qui sortira bient\u00f4t, comment sa famille s'est accroch\u00e9e \u00e0 la foi, \u00e0 l'espoir et \u00e0 l'amour \u00e0 mesure qu'elle a d\u00fb apprendre \u00e0 l\u00e2cher prise.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3956994\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'invite mes coll\u00e8gues \u00e0 rendre hommage \u00e0 la vie de Mike Sands en s'engageant \u00e0 faire tout ce qu'ils peuvent pour qu'on trouve un rem\u00e8de \u00e0 la scl\u00e9rose lat\u00e9rale amyotrophique.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/1/29/randy-kamp-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/randy-kamp/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/454/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8561810",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Mike Sands",
"fr": "Mike Sands"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/1/29/",
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}
}