Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-10-05 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5034515\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, for a number of years I was the health care critic in the Province of Manitoba. There was a great debate even at that time on how to address the ever-increasing cost of pharmaceuticals. One of the discussions we had was on the fact that we had two tertiary hospitals, we had community hospitals, and we had general hospitals throughout the province. The idea was to try to get our regional health care authorities to work closer together to get better prices on drugs. Within the two years, our national government will be getting together with provinces and territories to look at ways to deal with prices on drugs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5034516\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would my colleague agree that Ottawa cannot do this alone? Ottawa needs to work with the many different stakeholders, in particular our provinces. Therefore, there is a lot of goodwill on the part of the government to address this issue, because it is an issue of great concern to Canadians, but it is not quite as simple as the New Democrats try to portray it. In the federation, there is a responsibility to work with the provinces. Would the member across the way not agree with that concept?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5034515\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es, j\u2019ai \u00e9t\u00e9 le porte-parole en mati\u00e8re de soins de sant\u00e9 au Manitoba. Il y a eu un grand d\u00e9bat, m\u00eame \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque, sur la fa\u00e7on de r\u00e9gler le probl\u00e8me du co\u00fbt sans cesse croissant des produits pharmaceutiques. En particulier, nous avons discut\u00e9 du fait que nous avions deux h\u00f4pitaux de soins tertiaires, des h\u00f4pitaux communautaires et des h\u00f4pitaux g\u00e9n\u00e9raux dans la province. L\u2019id\u00e9e \u00e9tait d\u2019amener nos instances r\u00e9gionales de la sant\u00e9 \u00e0 resserrer leur collaboration entre elles pour obtenir de meilleurs prix pour les m\u00e9dicaments. Pendant les deux ans, le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral se r\u00e9unira avec les provinces et les territoires pour discuter de la strat\u00e9gie \u00e0 appliquer aux prix des m\u00e9dicaments.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5034516\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ma coll\u00e8gue conviendrait-elle qu\u2019Ottawa ne peut agir seul dans ce dossier? Ottawa doit travailler avec les nombreux intervenants, et en particulier les provinces. Par cons\u00e9quent, le gouvernement est rempli de bonne volont\u00e9 pour s\u2019attaquer \u00e0 cet enjeu, qui pr\u00e9occupe beaucoup les Canadiens, mais qui n\u2019est pas aussi simple que les n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrates le souhaiteraient. Dans la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration, il y a une responsabilit\u00e9 de travailler avec les provinces. Ma vis-\u00e0-vis ne serait-elle pas d\u2019accord sur ce concept?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/10/5/kevin-lamoureux-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/kevin-lamoureux/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4032/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9697519",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Pharmacare",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'assurance-m\u00e9dicaments"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/10/5/",
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    }
}