Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-03-10 14:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby\u2014Douglas, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby\u2014Douglas, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4003050\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Burnaby general hospital is in such bad repair that the Christmas tree cannot be plugged in because it could overload the electrical system. This is no joke. It is sad but it is true. The hospital does not have enough beds, or staff or washrooms. The aging buildings spread infection.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003051\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The hospital staff is excellent, but the building is crumbling around them and their patients. This is not right. It is not right because this is the same city where Tommy Douglas, the founder of medicare, won his first federal seat. It is also home to one of Canada's most decrepit hospitals.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003052\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The crisis at Burnaby Hospital is why I call on the Conservatives to reverse their decision to slash $36 billion from health transfers to the provinces. It is also why I am joining NDP MLA Kathy Corrigan and B.C. NDP leader John Horgan in calling for a new Burnaby hospital to be built.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003053\" data-originallang=\"en\">I will be working hard to help our leader secure the first NDP government in Canadian history so we can reverse these Conservative cuts and get Canadians the health care they need and the health care they deserve.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4003050\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, l'h\u00f4pital g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Burnaby est en si piteux \u00e9tat que le sapin de No\u00ebl n'a pas pu \u00eatre allum\u00e9, par crainte qu'il ne surcharge le r\u00e9seau \u00e9lectrique. Je ne blague pas. C'est la triste r\u00e9alit\u00e9. L'h\u00f4pital manque de lits, il manque de personnel et il manque de toilettes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003051\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les employ\u00e9s n'ont absolument rien \u00e0 se reprocher, c'est l'\u00e9difice qui menace de leur tomber sur la t\u00eate et sur celle des patients. C'est inacceptable, d'autant plus que c'est \u00e0 Burnaby que le p\u00e8re du r\u00e9gime d'assurance-maladie, Tommy Douglas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu d\u00e9put\u00e9 f\u00e9d\u00e9ral pour la premi\u00e8re fois. C'est aussi l\u00e0, h\u00e9las, qu'on trouve l'un des h\u00f4pitaux les plus d\u00e9cr\u00e9pits du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003052\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'h\u00f4pital de Burnaby est en crise, et c'est pour cette raison que je presse les conservateurs de revenir sur leur d\u00e9cision de sabrer 36 milliards de dollars dans les transferts aux provinces au titre de la sant\u00e9. C'est aussi pour cette raison que je joins ma voix \u00e0 celles de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate provinciale Kathy Corrigan et du chef n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate de la Colombie-Britannique, John Horgan, pour r\u00e9clamer la construction d'un nouvel h\u00f4pital \u00e0 Burnaby.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4003053\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ferai de mon mieux pour aider notre chef \u00e0 faire \u00e9lire le premier gouvernement n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate de l'histoire du Canada afin qu'il puisse annuler les compressions conservatrices et fournir aux Canadiens les soins de sant\u00e9 dont ils ont besoin et qu'ils m\u00e9ritent.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/3/10/kennedy-stewart-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kennedy-stewart/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4100/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8607314",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Health Care",
        "fr": "La sant\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/3/10/",
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    }
}