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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2018-10-16 13:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Mona Fortier",
"fr": "Mme Mona Fortier"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5582462\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, all the participants really understood the importance of this, which is twofold: one, to have legislation that will protect and help those who are affected by harassment and sexual violence in the workplace; and two, to make sure we have tools to prevent this. This is a major issue, and we need to give our employees the power to understand that they can be protected, they should not be going through this and they should be supported.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5582463\" data-originallang=\"en\">One testimony was from someone who had lived through it for many years. For privacy reasons, I will not say where she worked, but it was in our government. We were all very surprised that she did not have that space to be able to make a complaint and be supported. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5582464\" data-originallang=\"en\">This legislation would give us the necessary tools to move forward with prevention and methods and measures to empower employees in our government and in the workplace to be able to work safely.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5582462\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, tous les participants ont vraiment compris l\u2019importance de cette question, qui comporte deux volets: premi\u00e8rement, adopter une loi qui prot\u00e9gera et aidera les personnes touch\u00e9es par le harc\u00e8lement et la violence sexuelle en milieu de travail et, deuxi\u00e8mement, faire en sorte que nous ayons des outils pour pr\u00e9venir ces comportements. C\u2019est un enjeu majeur, et il faut donner aux employ\u00e9s le pouvoir de comprendre qu\u2019ils peuvent \u00eatre prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, qu\u2019ils ne devraient pas passer par l\u00e0 et qu\u2019ils devraient \u00eatre appuy\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5582463\" data-originallang=\"en\"> L\u2019un des t\u00e9moignages nous a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par quelqu\u2019un qui avait v\u00e9cu une telle situation pendant de nombreuses ann\u00e9es. Pour des raisons de protection de la vie priv\u00e9e, je ne dirai pas o\u00f9 elle travaillait, mais c\u2019\u00e9tait au sein du gouvernement. Nous avons tous \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s surpris de constater qu\u2019on ne lui avait pas fourni les outils n\u00e9cessaires pour porter plainte et \u00eatre appuy\u00e9e. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5582464\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ce projet de loi nous donnera les outils n\u00e9cessaires pour progresser sur le plan de la pr\u00e9vention, des m\u00e9thodes et des mesures qui permettront aux employ\u00e9s qui travaillent pour le gouvernement ou dans d'autres milieux de remplir leurs fonctions en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/10/16/mona-fortier-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mona-fortier/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4457/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10301426",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Labour Code",
"fr": "Le Code canadien du travail"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/10/16/",
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}
}