Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-09-29 11:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Anita Vandenbeld (Ottawa West\u2014Nepean, Lib.)",
        "fr": "Mme Anita Vandenbeld (Ottawa-Ouest\u2014Nepean, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5022152\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, from 1869 to the 1930s, over 100,000 poor, orphaned, and homeless British children were herded into camps and shipped across the seas to the Colonies. While some of these children would go on to build new lives, the program was stricken with corruption, and it was poorly implemented and virtually unsupervised.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5022153\" data-originallang=\"en\">Children shipped to Canada often found themselves forced into indentured servitude and hard labour, often facing physical and emotional abuse from their new parents, who viewed them as disposable, unpaid workers to be discarded if they did not perform.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5022154\" data-originallang=\"en\">Some of them were fortunate in finding a family like that of my constituent Anita Nevins, which took in one of these home children who had run away and welcomed him into their family as their own son.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5022155\" data-originallang=\"en\">September 28 is recognized in Ontario as British Home Child Day. I rise today to recognize the contributions of former home children and to express our sorrow and regret to these children and their descendants.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5022152\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, de 1869 jusqu'aux ann\u00e9es 1930, plus de 100 000 enfants britanniques \u2014 pauvres, orphelins et sans-abri \u2014 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 plac\u00e9s dans des camps et envoy\u00e9s dans les colonies de l'autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de l'oc\u00e9an. Alors que certains de ces enfants ont r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 se faire une nouvelle vie, la corruption r\u00e9gnait au sein du programme de placement, qui \u00e9tait mal mis en oeuvre et manquait de surveillance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5022153\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les enfants envoy\u00e9s au Canada \u00e9taient souvent forc\u00e9s \u00e0 accepter des contrats de servitude et condamn\u00e9s \u00e0 des travaux forc\u00e9s, accompagn\u00e9s, \u00e0 de rares exceptions pr\u00e8s, de violence physique et psychologique de la part de leurs nouveaux parents, qui les consid\u00e9raient comme des travailleurs non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s, jetables, et qui pouvaient \u00eatre renvoy\u00e9s si leur rendement n'\u00e9tait pas satisfaisant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5022154\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quelques-uns ont \u00e9t\u00e9 chanceux et ont trouv\u00e9 une bonne famille, comme celle de ma concitoyenne Anita Nevins, qui a accueilli un de ces enfants, qui s'\u00e9tait enfui, et l'a \u00e9lev\u00e9 comme s'il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 son propre fils. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5022155\" data-originallang=\"en\">En Ontario, le 28 septembre est proclam\u00e9 le Jour des petits immigr\u00e9s britanniques. Je prends la parole aujourd'hui pour souligner la contribution de ces anciens enfants immigr\u00e9s, et pour exprimer la douleur que nous ressentons \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des souffrances de ces enfants et de leurs descendants.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/9/29/anita-vandenbeld-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/anita-vandenbeld/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4427/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9679233",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "British Home Children",
        "fr": "Les petits immigr\u00e9s britanniques"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/9/29/",
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}