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{
    "time": "2020-10-23 10:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Steven Guilbeault",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Steven Guilbeault"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6300202\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, as part of the consultations done during the last Parliament on this bill and the testimonies we heard through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it became clear that September 30, Orange Shirt Day, a grassroots movement in Canada led by indigenous peoples across the country, was really the most significant day to create this national federal statutory holiday to remember what happened and what Canada has done to indigenous peoples across the country. We want to work to ensure that Canadians, but especially younger Canadians, understand this part of our past so that never again should this happen in the future.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6300202\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, lorsque des consultations ont eu lieu, au cours de la derni\u00e8re l\u00e9gislature, sur l'anc\u00eatre de ce projet de loi et lorsque des t\u00e9moignages ont \u00e9t\u00e9 entendus par l'entremise de la Commission de v\u00e9rit\u00e9 et r\u00e9conciliation, il est devenu \u00e9vident que le 30 septembre, qu'un mouvement populaire men\u00e9 par les peuples autochtones partout au pays a d\u00e9sign\u00e9 comme la Journ\u00e9e du chandail orange, est v\u00e9ritablement la date la plus significative pour cr\u00e9er ce jour f\u00e9ri\u00e9 national et comm\u00e9morer l'histoire et le traitement r\u00e9serv\u00e9 aux Autochtones par les autorit\u00e9s canadiennes dans le pass\u00e9. Nous voulons faire en sorte que les Canadiens, mais surtout les jeunes Canadiens, comprennent cette p\u00e9riode de notre histoire pour que jamais une telle chose ne se reproduise.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2020/10/23/steven-guilbeault-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/steven-guilbeault/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4587/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10967977",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Bills of Exchange Act",
        "fr": "La Loi sur les lettres de change"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2020/10/23/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2F"
    }
}