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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2020-11-03 18:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Heather McPherson",
"fr": "Mme Heather McPherson"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6326018\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, with all due respect, the member spoke of programs that are either over or completely inappropriate for the COVID pandemic. The stress of being a student or a recent graduate right now is incredible. They lost their summer employment. They have no job options. They are facing tuition increases. They do not know how they are going to pay their student debt.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6326019\" data-originallang=\"en\">The University of Alberta Campus Food Bank has been inundated with new requests. This is a tragedy, and it has only just begun. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6326020\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us start with a few concrete suggestions. Will the government forgive student loan interest, or at least extend the interest-free deferral program until after this pandemic? Will the government work with the provinces to make tuition more affordable, with the ultimate goal of tuition-free post-secondary education for all Canadians, something that is already being done in over two dozen countries? Finally, will the government\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6326018\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, malgr\u00e9 tout le respect que je lui dois, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parl\u00e9 de programmes qui ne sont plus offerts ou qui ne sont nullement pertinents pendant la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19. La situation est extr\u00eamement stressante pour les \u00e9tudiants et les r\u00e9cents dipl\u00f4m\u00e9s en ce moment. Ces personnes ont perdu leur emploi d'\u00e9t\u00e9. Elles n'ont pas d'option d'emploi. Elles doivent composer avec la hausse de leurs frais de scolarit\u00e9. Elles n'ont aucune id\u00e9e comment elles parviendront \u00e0 payer leurs pr\u00eats \u00e9tudiants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6326019\" data-originallang=\"en\">La banque alimentaire du campus de l'Universit\u00e9 de l'Alberta est inond\u00e9e de nouvelles demandes. C'est une trag\u00e9die, et ce n'est que le d\u00e9but.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6326020\" data-originallang=\"en\">Commen\u00e7ons par quelques suggestions concr\u00e8tes. Le gouvernement pardonnera-t-il l'int\u00e9r\u00eat sur les pr\u00eats \u00e9tudiants ou, \u00e0 tout le moins, prolongera-t-il le report du remboursement des pr\u00eats sans int\u00e9r\u00eat jusqu'\u00e0 ce que la pand\u00e9mie se termine? Collaborera-t-il avec les provinces pour rendre les frais de scolarit\u00e9 plus abordables, avec l'objectif ultime d'offrir l'acc\u00e8s gratuit \u00e0 l'enseignement postsecondaire pour tous les Canadiens, \u00e0 l'instar de ce qui se fait d\u00e9j\u00e0 dans plus de deux douzaines de pays? Enfin, le gouvernement...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/11/3/heather-mcpherson-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/heather-mcpherson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10990578",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Post-Secondary Education",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/11/3/",
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}
}