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{
"time": "2018-09-19 15:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Cheryl Hardcastle (Windsor\u2014Tecumseh, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Cheryl Hardcastle (Windsor\u2014Tecumseh, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5525344\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague, the minister, for tabling this historic legislation today. I look forward to working in a collegial fashion so that all of us here can strengthen the bill, because it is something that all Canadians deserve.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525345\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was intrigued and inspired when the minister suggested in her presentation on Bill <a data-HoCid=\"9990870\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-81/\" title=\"An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada\">C-81</a> that she was inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As we know, that was ratified in 2010, and we have had no movement since for its implementation. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525346\" data-originallang=\"en\">Especially because we do not get a lot of media coverage for the issues affecting this vulnerable population and the people who care about them, I want to reiterate that there are aspects of the proposed accessibility act that would allow for partial or blanket exemptions for some important agencies. Also, there are no timelines and there are no requirements.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525347\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Do we see the accessibility act here as implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5525344\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je remercie la ministre d'avoir pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 aujourd'hui ce projet de loi historique. Je me r\u00e9jouis \u00e0 l'id\u00e9e de travailler en collaboration avec mes coll\u00e8gues afin que nous puissions am\u00e9liorer le projet de loi, car les mesures qu'il pr\u00e9voit sont indispensables \u00e0 tous les Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525345\" data-originallang=\"en\">La ministre a piqu\u00e9 ma curiosit\u00e9 lorsque, dans son discours sur le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"9990870\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-81/\" title=\"An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada\">C-81</a>, elle a dit avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 inspir\u00e9e par la Convention des Nations unies relative aux droits des personnes handicap\u00e9es. On sait que cette convention a \u00e9t\u00e9 ratifi\u00e9e en 2010; or, rien n'a \u00e9t\u00e9 fait depuis pour assurer sa mise en oeuvre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525346\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme les enjeux touchant cette population vuln\u00e9rable et les personnes qui en prennent soin font l'objet d'une couverture m\u00e9diatique modeste, je tiens \u00e0 r\u00e9p\u00e9ter que certaines dispositions du projet de loi sur l'accessibilit\u00e9 pr\u00e9voient des exemptions partielles ou totales applicables \u00e0 certaines agences importantes. De plus, le projet de loi ne pr\u00e9voit pas de d\u00e9lais ni d'exigences.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5525347\" data-originallang=\"en\">Est-ce que le projet de loi sur l'accessibilit\u00e9 servira \u00e0 mettre en oeuvre la Convention des Nations unies relative aux droits des personnes handicap\u00e9es? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2018/9/19/cheryl-hardcastle-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/cheryl-hardcastle/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4270/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10245627",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Accessible Canada Act",
"fr": "Loi canadienne sur l\u2019accessibilit\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2018/9/19/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2018%2F9%2F19%2F"
}
}