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{
"time": "2016-11-17 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4639863\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday we asked the Liberals to take real action to prevent violence against indigenous women. Seventy percent of Inuit communities have no access to shelters.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4639864\" data-originallang=\"en\">Amnesty International says \u201cThe scale and severity of violence faced by Indigenous women and girls in Canada...constitutes a national human rights crisis.\u201d Yesterday, the Native Women's Association called the government inaction \u201ca breach of human rights\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4639865\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the government take responsibility, so no woman is ever turned away from a domestic violence shelter?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4639863\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, mardi dernier, nous avons demand\u00e9 aux lib\u00e9raux de prendre des mesures concr\u00e8tes pour pr\u00e9venir la violence faite aux femmes et aux jeunes filles autochtones. \u00c0 l'heure actuelle, 70 % des communaut\u00e9s inuites n'ont pas acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un refuge pour victimes de violence conjugale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4639864\" data-originallang=\"en\">Amnistie internationale a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que l'ampleur et la gravit\u00e9 de la violence envers les femmes et les jeunes filles autochtones au Canada donnent lieu \u00e0 une crise nationale en mati\u00e8re de droits de la personne. Hier, l'Association des femmes autochtones a qualifi\u00e9 l'inaction du gouvernement \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard de \u00ab violation flagrante des droits de la personne \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4639865\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement agira-t-il comme il se doit pour s'assurer qu'aucune femme ne se voit refuser l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un refuge pour victimes de violence conjugale?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/11/17/sheila-malcolmson-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sheila-malcolmson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4256/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9241414",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Status of Women",
"fr": "La condition f\u00e9minine"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/11/17/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F11%2F17%2F"
}
}