Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-12-04 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Wayne Easter",
        "fr": "L'hon. Wayne Easter"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5166253\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I welcome the member's comments and thank him for his compliments for Prince Edward Island. He, of course, can catch a plane out of Winnipeg, maybe stop in Toronto, and get to Prince Edward Island. We would welcome him a couple of times a year if he would like to come.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5166254\" data-originallang=\"en\">That said, islanders do see the senate chamber in Province House as an important place of history in Canada's development. It certainly was a spark or moment in time when a maritime conference was planned and Sir John A. Macdonald and others sailed down there in boats. I understand they had champagne in the hull of their ship as they arrived in Charlottetown. They turned what was to be a maritime conference into what would become the birthplace and vision for Confederation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5166255\" data-originallang=\"en\"> To Parks Canada' credit, Province House is being renovated now, and when one walks up the worn steps of Province House one sees the decor. It is not a huge place. However, there is a sense of history when one walks through what was then the senate chamber and see the table where our founding fathers came together and decided on their vision for this great country. Their vision was built on in the Quebec Conference and the London Conference that came afterwards. To a great extent this is why we have the country we have today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5166256\" data-originallang=\"en\">When I was the president of the NFU, I often mentioned that Canadians need to see more of Canada and the tremendous potential we have as a country, which, in many respects, is second to none compared to others around the world. That vision happened in Charlottetown and we are proud of it as islanders.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5166253\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de ses observations et de ses compliments \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de l'\u00cele-du-Prince-\u00c9douard. Bien entendu, il peut prendre l'avion \u00e0 partir de Winnipeg pour se rendre \u00e0 l'\u00cele-du-Prince-\u00c9douard en effectuant peut-\u00eatre une escale \u00e0 Toronto. Nous sommes pr\u00eats \u00e0 l'accueillir quelques fois par ann\u00e9e s'il veut venir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5166254\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela dit, les Prince-\u00c9douardiens consid\u00e8rent vraiment que la salle du S\u00e9nat de Province House est un important lieu historique par rapport \u00e0 la naissance du Canada. Ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 l'\u00e9l\u00e9ment d\u00e9clencheur, c'est assur\u00e9ment la conf\u00e9rence maritime qui avait \u00e9t\u00e9 planifi\u00e9e et o\u00f9 sir John A. Macdonald et d'autres personnes s'\u00e9taient rendus en bateaux. Je crois comprendre que, lorsqu'ils sont arriv\u00e9s \u00e0 Charlottetown, les soutes \u00e9taient pleines de champagne. Ce qui devait \u00eatre une conf\u00e9rence maritime est devenu le berceau et la vision de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5166255\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Parcs Canada r\u00e9nove actuellement Province House, ce qui est tout \u00e0 son honneur, et, lorsqu'on gravit les marches anciennes de cet \u00e9difice, on remarque le d\u00e9cor. L'endroit n'est pas \u00e9norme, mais, lorsqu'on p\u00e9n\u00e8tre dans ce qui \u00e9tait \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque la salle du S\u00e9nat et qu'on voit la table autour de laquelle les p\u00e8res fondateurs se sont r\u00e9unis pour d\u00e9cider d'une vision pour notre grand pays, il nous plonge dans l'histoire. La Conf\u00e9rence de Qu\u00e9bec et la Conf\u00e9rence de Londres, qui ont suivi cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement, se sont appuy\u00e9es sur cette vision. C'est en grande partie pourquoi le Canada est devenu ce qu'il est aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5166256\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque j'\u00e9tais pr\u00e9sident du Syndicat national des cultivateurs, je mentionnais souvent que les Canadiens devaient visiter davantage le Canada pour constater l'\u00e9norme potentiel du pays, qui, \u00e0 bien des \u00e9gards, est sans \u00e9gal par rapport aux autres pays du monde. Cette vision est apparue \u00e0 Charlottetown, et les Prince-\u00c9douardiens en sont fiers.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/12/4/wayne-easter-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/wayne-easter/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3253/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9850570",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Private Members' Business",
        "fr": "Initiatives Parlementaires"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Recognition of Charlottetown as the Birthplace of Confederation Act",
        "fr": "Loi reconnaissant Charlottetown comme le berceau de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/12/4/",
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}