Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-06-18 10:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Irwin Cotler (Mount Royal, Lib.)",
        "fr": "L'hon. Irwin Cotler (Mont-Royal, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4164563\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present three separate petitions today. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164564\" data-originallang=\"en\">The first is a petition on behalf of Canadians who are calling on the Government of Canada and members of Parliament to take note of the human rights violations perpetrated in Venezuela by the government of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, including the criminalization of dissent, the shuttering of independent media and the imprisonment of opposition leaders.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164565\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to further study the human rights situation in Venezuela, including a mission to conduct first-hand evaluations of the situation there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164566\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is a particularly timely petition as opposition leader Leopoldo L\u00f3pez and former San Cristobal mayor Daniel Ceballos have embarked upon a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment and that of other opponents of the regime.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164567\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the second petition is on behalf of Canadians who wish the government to apologize to Dr. David Shugar for the human and civil rights violations he suffered, including serious damage to his reputation and loss of employment as a result of false accusations that he was a Communist spy in 1946.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164568\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners call on the government to submit a letter of apology to Dr. Shugar who, as a result of these civil rights abuses, and despite being exonerated of all the accusations against him, was summarily dismissed from his position with the federal Department of National Health and Welfare, unable to secure employment and forced to emigrate to Poland where he resides today. He is close to 100 years of age.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4164563\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est avec plaisir que je pr\u00e9sente aujourd'hui trois p\u00e9titions distinctes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164564\" data-originallang=\"en\">La premi\u00e8re provient de Canadiens qui exhortent le gouvernement du Canada et les d\u00e9put\u00e9s f\u00e9d\u00e9raux \u00e0 prendre acte du fait que, au Venezuela, le gouvernement du pr\u00e9sident Nicol\u00e1s Maduro viole les droits de la personne, notamment en criminalisant la dissension, en b\u00e2illonnant les m\u00e9dias ind\u00e9pendants et en emprisonnant les dirigeants de l'opposition.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164565\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires r\u00e9clament que le gouvernement du Canada examine de plus pr\u00e8s la situation des droits de la personne au Venezuela, notamment en y d\u00e9l\u00e9guant une mission charg\u00e9e d'\u00e9valuer d'elle-m\u00eame la situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164566\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette p\u00e9tition est d'autant plus opportune que le chef de l'opposition, Leopoldo L\u00f3pez, et l'ancien maire de San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos, ont entam\u00e9 une gr\u00e8ve de la faim pour d\u00e9noncer leur emprisonnement et celui des autres opposants au r\u00e9gime.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164567\" data-originallang=\"en\">La deuxi\u00e8me p\u00e9tition, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, vient de Canadiens qui veulent que le gouvernement pr\u00e9sente des excuses \u00e0 David Shugar pour les atteintes aux droits de la personne et aux droits civils qu'il a subies lorsqu'on l'a accus\u00e9 \u00e0 tort d'\u00eatre un espion communiste, en 1946, ce qui a gravement entach\u00e9 sa r\u00e9putation et lui a fait perdre son emploi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4164568\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les signataires demandent au gouvernement d'adresser une lettre d'excuses \u00e0 M. Shugar pour les cons\u00e9quences des violations de ses droits civils, car m\u00eame s'il a \u00e9t\u00e9 lav\u00e9 de toute accusation, le minist\u00e8re f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de la Sant\u00e9 nationale et du Bien-\u00eatre social l'a cong\u00e9di\u00e9 cavali\u00e8rement. Incapable de trouver un autre emploi, M. Shugar a \u00e9t\u00e9 forc\u00e9 d'\u00e9migrer en Pologne, o\u00f9, \u00e0 presque 100 ans, il r\u00e9side toujours actuellement.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/6/18/irwin-cotler-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/irwin-cotler/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3673/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8756132",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Petitions",
        "fr": "P\u00e9titions"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Human Rights",
        "fr": "Les droits de la personne"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/6/18/",
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}