Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-09-19 14:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Arif Virani (Parkdale\u2014High Park, Lib.)",
        "fr": "M. Arif Virani (Parkdale\u2014High Park, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5525027\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we understand harm reduction. That is why, to address the opioid crisis, our government has approved 26 supervised injection sites with the co-operation of provinces across Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525028\" data-originallang=\"en\">This summer, the new government in Ontario withdrew the approval of an overdose prevention site in my riding of Parkdale\u2014High Park, ostensibly because it wants to review the evidence behind harm reduction. However, the evidence is already in. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525029\" data-originallang=\"en\">As the Supreme Court stated in 2011, supervised injection sites save lives. Hospitals and health care workers get it. That is why they have opened a pop-up site in Parkdale in defiance of the Province's position. The compassionate and progressive constituents of my riding get it. They are actively supporting this pop-up site, and so are the police and the City of Toronto. The only missing link is the Province of Ontario.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525030\" data-originallang=\"en\">When lives are at stake, this cannot be a partisan issue. It is incumbent upon all elected representatives, at every level of government, to address the opioid crisis and to stop preventable deaths.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5525027\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous comprenons l'approche de la r\u00e9duction des m\u00e9faits. Voil\u00e0 pourquoi le gouvernement a approuv\u00e9 26 centres d'injection supervis\u00e9e, avec la collaboration des provinces partout au Canada, afin de r\u00e9soudre la crise des opio\u00efdes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525028\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cet \u00e9t\u00e9, le nouveau gouvernement de l'Ontario a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d'annuler l'autorisation d'ouvrir un centre de pr\u00e9vention des surdoses dans ma circonscription, Parkdale\u2014High Park, soi-disant parce qu'il souhaite corroborer les faits relatifs \u00e0 la r\u00e9duction des m\u00e9faits. Cependant, les faits sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 l\u00e0.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525029\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme la Cour supr\u00eame l'a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 en 2011, les centres d'injection supervis\u00e9e permettent de sauver des vies. Les h\u00f4pitaux et les travailleurs de la sant\u00e9 le comprennent. Voil\u00e0 pourquoi ils ont ouvert un centre provisoire \u00e0 Parkdale malgr\u00e9 la position de la province. Les \u00e9lecteurs compatissants et progressistes de ma circonscription le comprennent. Ils appuient activement le centre provisoire, tout comme la police et la Ville de Toronto. Le seul maillon manquant est la province de l'Ontario.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525030\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque des vies sont en jeu, on ne doit pas en faire une question partisane. Il incombe \u00e0 tous les repr\u00e9sentants \u00e9lus, \u00e0 tous les ordres de gouvernement, de r\u00e9soudre la crise des opio\u00efdes et d'emp\u00eacher les d\u00e9c\u00e8s \u00e9vitables.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/9/19/arif-virani-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/arif-virani/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4435/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10245106",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Supervised Injection Sites",
        "fr": "Les centres d'injection supervis\u00e9e"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/9/19/",
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    }
}