Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2016-09-20 19:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Charlie Angus",
        "fr": "M. Charlie Angus"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4469962\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I guess I have to say what it looks like on the ground. We hear all these slogans and numbers, but the reality is that the government is taking the approach of fighting families that are being denied their medical rights. It was the minister who decided she would rather fight a family in court that needed emergency orthodontic treatment. The minister decided it was worth spending three to four times the amount on lawyers than providing the children their medical needs. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4469963\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is not a new relationship. This is a very old one. This is the old relationship that has damaged Canada since before Confederation. The fact that the government is not in compliance with the Human Rights Tribunal, that it can say that it will throw money into this program and that program, that is the colonial attitude of Indian affairs and Health Canada. They figure as long as they create some program that will have a sunset in a year or two, they do not have to face the fact that the needs of children are still being denied, on child welfare, on education, and on health. The Human Rights Tribunal says that it is racist, system discrimination. It has to stop. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4469962\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je me dois de d\u00e9crire les choses telles qu'elles sont sur le terrain. Nous entendons tous ces beaux discours et ces chiffres, mais la r\u00e9alit\u00e9, c'est que le gouvernement adopte l'approche de la lutte contre les familles qui se voient refuser le droit d'avoir acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des soins de sant\u00e9. La ministre pr\u00e9f\u00e8re lutter en cour contre une famille qui a besoin d'un traitement orthodontique d'urgence. Elle a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 qu'il valait mieux d\u00e9penser trois ou quatre fois le montant pour payer des avocats plut\u00f4t que de pourvoir aux besoins m\u00e9dicaux des enfants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4469963\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cette relation n'a rien de nouveau. Elle date d'il y a tr\u00e8s longtemps. C'est la m\u00eame vieille relation qui cause du tort au Canada depuis bien avant la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration. Le refus du gouvernement de se conformer aux d\u00e9cisions du Tribunal des droits de la personne, ses d\u00e9clarations selon lesquelles il va injecter des fonds dans tel ou tel programme, cela t\u00e9moigne de l'attitude coloniale dont font preuve Affaires indiennes et Sant\u00e9 Canada. Le gouvernement se dit que tant qu'il cr\u00e9e un programme qui viendra \u00e0 \u00e9ch\u00e9ance dans un an ou deux, il n'aura pas \u00e0 faire face au fait que les besoins des enfants ne sont toujours pas combl\u00e9s, ni en mati\u00e8re de services d'aide \u00e0 l'enfance, ni en mati\u00e8re d'\u00e9ducation, ni en mati\u00e8re de sant\u00e9. Le Tribunal des droits de la personne dit que c'est de la discrimination raciale syst\u00e9mique. Cela doit cesser.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/9/20/charlie-angus-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9042326",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Indigenous Affairs",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/9/20/",
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