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{
"time": "2020-10-22 16:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6298532\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I particularly enjoyed the member's comments on how we need to support our tourism sector. As members know, Edmonton Strathcona is the heart of the arts sector in Alberta.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6298533\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to ask the member about his thoughts on long-term care. We saw our seniors in long-term care homes suffer deeply under the first wave of COVID-19 to the point where we had members of the military having to go in, military members who then suffered PTSD from what they had seen in these long-term care homes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6298534\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would the member support the idea of having national binding standards for all federal funds that go out to the provinces for long-term care homes, to make sure our seniors can live in dignity?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6298532\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai particuli\u00e8rement aim\u00e9 ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a dit sur la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'appuyer notre secteur du tourisme. Comme le savent les d\u00e9put\u00e9s, Edmonton Strathcona est le c\u0153ur du secteur des arts de l'Alberta.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6298533\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais savoir ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pense des soins de longue dur\u00e9e. Nous avons vu les a\u00een\u00e9s dans les \u00e9tablissements de soins de longue dur\u00e9e \u00eatre durement touch\u00e9s par la premi\u00e8re vague de COVID-19. La situation \u00e9tait si grave qu'on a d\u00fb appeler en renfort des militaires, qui ont par la suite souffert d'un trouble de stress post-traumatique \u00e0 cause de ce qu'ils avaient vu dans ces \u00e9tablissements.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6298534\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 serait-il en faveur d'\u00e9tablir des normes nationales ex\u00e9cutoires pour le versement aux provinces de tous les fonds f\u00e9d\u00e9raux destin\u00e9s aux \u00e9tablissements de soins de longue dur\u00e9e afin de nous assurer que les a\u00een\u00e9s canadiens peuvent vivre dans la dignit\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/10/22/heather-mcpherson-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/heather-mcpherson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10967087",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Instruction to the Standing Committee on Health",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Instruction au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la sant\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/10/22/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F10%2F22%2F"
}
}