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{
"time": "2015-06-04 14:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Dennis Bevington (Northwest Territories, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Dennis Bevington (Territoires du Nord-Ouest, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4140218\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, National Chief Perry Bellegarde was clear that we cannot have reconciliation while indigenous people are mired in poverty.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4140219\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yet here we are with elders being forced to root through garbage dumps for food and children going hungry because their parents have no food to give them. Instead of helping them, the Conservatives are refusing to fix nutrition north.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4140220\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the spirit of reconciliation, will the Conservatives give the full subsidy to all northern fly-in communities that are currently not receiving it?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4140218\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le chef national Perry Bellegarde a dit clairement qu'il n'y aura pas de r\u00e9conciliation possible tant que les Autochtones vivront dans la pauvret\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4140219\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'heure actuelle, des a\u00een\u00e9s sont forc\u00e9s de fouiller dans les poubelles pour trouver de la nourriture et des enfants ne mangent pas \u00e0 leur faim parce que leurs parents n'ont pas de nourriture \u00e0 leur donner. Au lieu de les aider, les conservateurs refusent de corriger le programme Nutrition Nord.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4140220\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans un esprit de r\u00e9conciliation, les conservateurs accorderont-ils la pleine subvention \u00e0 toutes les collectivit\u00e9s du Nord qui ne sont accessibles que par avion et qui ne la re\u00e7oivent pas \u00e0 l'heure actuelle?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/6/4/dennis-bevington-11/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dennis-bevington/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4173/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8734278",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Northern Development",
"fr": "Le d\u00e9veloppement du Nord"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2015/6/4/",
"related": {
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}
}