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{
"time": "2018-03-01 15:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014Baie James, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5294082\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my colleague, for whom I have enormous respect. However, I feel she took a turn in the road, going at the CRA. We know the previous government used the CRA to go after environmental groups. The question before us today is whether organizations that work with young people should get funding.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5294083\" data-originallang=\"en\">There were groups in my riding of Timmins\u2014James Bay that abused it. A group called Priests for Life, which I have never heard of and has no connection in my riding, was using it strictly for militant work on abortion. To me, that is a fairly straightforward mechanism to ensure groups like that, which are not doing youth outreach, do not get the funding.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5294084\" data-originallang=\"en\">What concerns me is it seems we are going into a Liberal culture war here. Many groups do faith work and incredible work with community groups. They now feel they are under this attestation. I am trying to reassure people in my riding that if they are doing good community work, they are still eligible. However, I am very concerned that this ham-fisted response to what was a reasonable problem that could have easily been fixed would not have resulted in the kinds of concerns I hear across our region.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5294082\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j\u2019ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 ma coll\u00e8gue, pour laquelle j\u2019ai beaucoup de respect, avec grand int\u00e9r\u00eat. Cependant, je consid\u00e8re qu\u2019elle y a un peu fort en invoquant l\u2019ARC. Nous savons que le gouvernement pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent utilisait l\u2019ARC pour se lancer \u00e0 la chasse aux groupes environnementaux. La question dont nous sommes saisis aujourd\u2019hui est de savoir si les organisations qui travaillent avec les jeunes devraient recevoir du financement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5294083\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y avait des groupes dans ma circonscription, Timmins\u2014Baie James, qui ont profit\u00e9 ind\u00fbment de ce financement. Un groupe appel\u00e9 Priests for Life, dont je n\u2019avais jamais entendu parler et qui n\u2019avait aucun lien avec ma circonscription, l\u2019utilisait strictement pour du travail militant sur l\u2019avortement. Selon moi, l'attestation est m\u00e9canisme bien simple pour s\u2019assurer que des groupes comme celui-l\u00e0, qui ne travaillent pas vraiment aupr\u00e8s des jeunes, ne re\u00e7oivent pas de financement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5294084\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce qui me pr\u00e9occupe c\u2019est qu\u2019il semble que nous nous dirigeons vers une guerre culturelle lib\u00e9rale. Plusieurs groupes confessionnels font un travail exceptionnel avec les groupes communautaires. Ils se sentent maintenant vis\u00e9s par cette attestation. Je tente de rassurer la population de ma circonscription en leur disant que, s\u2019ils font du bon travail communautaire, ils demeurent toujours admissibles. Cependant, je suis convaincu que cette r\u00e9ponse disproportionn\u00e9e \u00e0 ce qui semblait \u00eatre un probl\u00e8me raisonnable qui aurait pu \u00eatre r\u00e9gl\u00e9 facilement n'aurait pas d\u00fb soulever les pr\u00e9occupations dont j\u2019entends les \u00e9chos \u00e0 travers notre r\u00e9gion. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/3/1/charlie-angus-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10001520",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Canada Summer Jobs Program",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L\u2019initiative Emplois d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/3/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F3%2F1%2F"
}
}