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{
"time": "2016-10-18 10:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby South, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Kennedy Stewart (Burnaby-Sud, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4555315\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition signed by many constituents.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4555316\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners call on the government to support Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8118999\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-237/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (gender equity)\">C-237</a>, the candidate gender equity act. The constituents point out that women still only hold 26% of the seats here in this place and Canada is ranked 64th in the world in terms of gender representation in our legislature.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4555317\" data-originallang=\"en\">My constituents would like the legislation passed and we will have a chance to do that tomorrow night when we vote on the bill.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4555315\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je pr\u00e9sente aujourd'hui une p\u00e9tition sign\u00e9e par de nombreux Canadiens. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4555316\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires pressent le gouvernement d'appuyer le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8118999\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-237/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (gender equity)\">C-237</a>, la Loi sur l'\u00e9quit\u00e9 hommes-femmes chez les candidats. Les signataires soulignent que les femmes ne d\u00e9tiennent encore que 26 % des si\u00e8ges \u00e0 la Chambre des communes et que le Canada se situe au 64<sup>e</sup> rang mondial pour ce qui est de la repr\u00e9sentation des deux sexes au Parlement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4555317\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les r\u00e9sidants de ma circonscription aimeraient que cette mesure l\u00e9gislative soit adopt\u00e9e, ce que nous aurons la possibilit\u00e9 de faire demain soir lorsqu'elle sera mise aux voix.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/10/18/kennedy-stewart-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kennedy-stewart/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4188/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9159156",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Gender Equity",
"fr": "L'\u00e9quit\u00e9 entre les sexes"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/10/18/",
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}
}