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{
"time": "2016-06-08 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014Baie James, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4409350\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, international Human Rights Watch has called out the government for the systemic water crisis on indigenous reserves. Not only are families getting sick or suffering bacterial infections, we have had youth die from mercury poisoning at sites like Grassy Narrows that should have been cleaned up years ago.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4409351\" data-originallang=\"en\">The <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> made a personal commitment to have clean drinking water in every single community within five years, but government documents show it will not get close to that target because it is shortchanging the commitment by billions. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4409352\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why is the government continuing this shameful legacy of leaving indigenous families at risk?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4409350\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, l'organisme international Human Rights Watch interpelle le gouvernement concernant la crise syst\u00e9mique de l'approvisionnement en eau potable dans les r\u00e9serves autochtones. Des familles tombent malades ou souffrent d'infections bact\u00e9riennes. Des jeunes meurent d'empoisonnement au mercure \u00e0 des endroits comme Grassy Narrows, qui auraient d\u00fb \u00eatre nettoy\u00e9s il y a des ann\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4409351\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> s'est engag\u00e9 personnellement \u00e0 assainir l'approvisionnement en eau potable dans toutes les localit\u00e9s autochtones d'ici cinq ans, mais les documents du gouvernement nous r\u00e9v\u00e8lent que cet objectif ne sera pas du tout atteint, puisqu'il manque des milliards de dollars de financement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4409352\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement poursuit-il la tradition honteuse d'exposer des familles autochtones \u00e0 des risques?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/6/8/charlie-angus-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8977599",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Indigenous Affairs",
"fr": "Les affaires autochtones"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/6/8/",
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}
}