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{
"time": "2018-02-15 17:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Larry Maguire",
"fr": "M. Larry Maguire"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5270649\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question gives me an opportunity to answer the rest of the question my colleague from Quebec asked me earlier. Yes, I have been in the new office and, yes, I respect the work being done by the new people who have moved in to help the gentleman who was doing some of that work before.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5270650\" data-originallang=\"en\">To that very point, it is not just about the services. It is about the type of services being offered and how they are being offered. I take my colleague's point very well about how the services should be more humanitarian, if I can put it that way, with respect to the individual efforts of those veterans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5270651\" data-originallang=\"en\">I feel my office is acting like a veterans affairs office some days as well. We get not only a lot of immigrants coming through on some of the other issues with respect to the committee I am on, but we get a lot of veterans looking for help, and we are glad to help them. The staff person I have is a reservist herself.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5270649\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la question de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e me donne la chance de finir de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 celle que m'a pos\u00e9e ma coll\u00e8gue du Qu\u00e9bec plus t\u00f4t. Oui, je me suis rendu dans le nouveau bureau et oui, je respecte le travail qu'accomplissent les nouvelles personnes qui aident maintenant celui qui faisait une partie de ce travail.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5270650\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il ne suffit pas d'offrir des services. Il faut aussi examiner le genre de services offerts et la fa\u00e7on de les offrir. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e a raison: tout ce processus devrait \u00eatre plus humain, si je puis dire, et demander aux anciens combattants un effort plus raisonnable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5270651\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai parfois l'impression que mon bureau est une succursale d'Anciens Combattants Canada. Parmi nos visiteurs, on compte non seulement de nombreux immigrants qui viennent nous parler de certains enjeux dont s'occupe le comit\u00e9 auquel je si\u00e8ge, mais aussi beaucoup d'anciens combattants qui ont besoin d'aide, et que nous aidons avec plaisir. L'employ\u00e9e de mon bureau est d'ailleurs r\u00e9serviste.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/2/15/larry-maguire-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/larry-maguire/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4161/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9982931",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Les travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Veterans Affairs",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les anciens combattants"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/2/15/",
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}
}