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{
"time": "2017-03-20 14:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Sheila Malcolmson (Nanaimo\u2014Ladysmith, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4806701\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Canada's veterans are not getting the support they deserve. I heard this loud and clear at the Nanaimo Legion 10 town hall earlier this month. Vets said that both past Conservative and Liberal governments are poisoning patriotism and the desire to serve our country. They said that dealing with Veterans Affairs with PTSD is like being given a jigsaw puzzle and turning out the lights.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4806702\" data-originallang=\"en\">These young vets want a navigator to help them manage the tangled bureaucracy of PTSD treatment and to make sure that no vet is discharged without medical benefits and a pension in place. They want the lifetime pension for wounded vets restored, as the Liberals promised. The Canadian Forces ombudsman reinforced this in withering testimony to the Senate on March 8, when he said that Canada is not living up to its bargain.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4806703\" data-originallang=\"en\">This week's Liberal budget must make this right. Our veterans deserve so much better.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4806701\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les anciens combattants du Canada ne re\u00e7oivent pas le soutien qu'ils m\u00e9ritent. Je l'ai constat\u00e9 tr\u00e8s clairement lors la r\u00e9union de la filiale 10 de la L\u00e9gion qui a eu lieu \u00e0 Nanaimo plus t\u00f4t ce mois-ci. Les anciens combattants ont d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que les gouvernements conservateurs et lib\u00e9raux minent tous deux le patriotisme et d\u00e9truisent le d\u00e9sir de servir le pays. Ils affirment que traiter avec le minist\u00e8re des Anciens Combattants pour les probl\u00e8mes de troubles de stress post-traumatique revient \u00e0 tenter de faire un casse-t\u00eate dans le noir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4806702\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces jeunes anciens combattants souhaitent que quelqu'un puisse les aider \u00e0 naviguer dans les d\u00e9dales de la bureaucratie afin d'obtenir un traitement pour les troubles de stress post-traumatique et qu'aucun combattant ne soit lib\u00e9r\u00e9 sans que les questions relatives \u00e0 leur r\u00e9gime d'assurance-maladie et leur pension ne soient r\u00e9gl\u00e9es. Ils veulent aussi que les lib\u00e9raux respectent leur promesse de r\u00e9tablir les pensions \u00e0 vie pour les anciens combattants bless\u00e9s. L'ombudsman des Forces canadiennes a d'ailleurs soulign\u00e9 ce point le 8 mars lors de son t\u00e9moignage devant le S\u00e9nat, lorsqu'il a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que le Canada n'assumait pas ses responsabilit\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4806703\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le budget que les lib\u00e9raux d\u00e9poseront cette semaine doit r\u00e9gler ce probl\u00e8me. Les anciens combattants m\u00e9ritent beaucoup mieux que la situation actuelle.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/3/20/sheila-malcolmson-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sheila-malcolmson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4256/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9428294",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Veterans Affairs",
"fr": "Les anciens combattants"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/3/20/",
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}
}