Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2016-01-27 18:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4181750\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I congratulate the hon. member for his passionate speech bringing forward the concerns of his region. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4181751\" data-originallang=\"en\">Coming from a coastal community on Vancouver Island, I know that families, seniors, and small business people are having a harder and harder time making ends meet. The costs of our ferry system have gone up. The price of getting to mainland North America is out of control. As members can imagine, BC Ferries is our highway system, our link, connecting many Vancouver Islanders to the mainland. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4181752\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the election, both the previous government and member of Parliament for my riding said that the building Canada fund would include upgrades for new ferries and infrastructure. Later on the provincial minister for transportation in British Columbia said that we did not qualify for the building Canada fund. We have now found out that ferry infrastructure is not included in the building Canada fund.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4181753\" data-originallang=\"en\">Because coastal communities that need improvements in ferry infrastructure are affected all across Canada, from coast to coast to coast, I call on the member from Quebec to join me in calling on the government to serve residents in coastal communities right across this country.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4181750\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je f\u00e9licite le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de la passion avec laquelle il fait valoir les pr\u00e9occupations de sa r\u00e9gion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4181751\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme je viens d'une localit\u00e9 c\u00f4ti\u00e8re de l'\u00eele de Vancouver, je sais que les familles, les a\u00een\u00e9s et les propri\u00e9taires de petites entreprises ont de plus en plus de mal \u00e0 joindre les deux bouts. Le co\u00fbt du service de traversiers a augment\u00e9. Il faut maintenant verser une somme faramineuse pour se rendre au continent. Comme les d\u00e9put\u00e9s peuvent se l'imaginer, la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 BC Ferries est pour nous comme un r\u00e9seau routier, le lien entre de nombreux habitants de l'\u00eele de Vancouver et le continent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4181752\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans la derni\u00e8re campagne, le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent gouvernement tout comme le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent d\u00e9put\u00e9 de ma circonscription affirmaient que le fonds Chantiers Canada financerait l'achat de nouveaux traversiers et de nouvelles infrastructures. Puis, le ministre provincial des Transports de la Colombie-Britannique a dit qu'on ne r\u00e9pondait pas aux conditions d'admissibilit\u00e9. C'est ensuite qu'on a appris que le fonds Chantiers Canada ne pr\u00e9voit aucune somme pour l'infrastructure de traversiers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4181753\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme de nombreuses localit\u00e9s c\u00f4ti\u00e8res dans l'ensemble du Canada ont besoin de nouvelles infrastructures n\u00e9cessaires au service de traversiers, j'invite le d\u00e9put\u00e9 qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois \u00e0 se joindre \u00e0 moi pour demander au gouvernement de servir les habitants des localit\u00e9s c\u00f4ti\u00e8res d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du pays.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/1/27/gord-johns-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8772641",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Speech from the Throne",
        "fr": "Le discours du Tr\u00f4ne"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Resumption of debate on Address in Reply",
        "fr": "Reprise du d\u00e9bat sur l'Adresse en r\u00e9ponse"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/1/27/",
    "related": {
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    }
}