Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2020-02-27 16:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, CPC)",
        "fr": "Mme Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton\u2014Melville, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6067448\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to the member. I appreciate her heartfelt comments. We work together on veterans committee.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6067449\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to talk to her about that dynamic specifically here. The bill states that the patient's death no longer must be \u201creasonably foreseeable\u201d but requires patients to still have a \u201cgrievous and irremediable medical condition\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6067450\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member and I appreciate our veterans but we are deeply concerned about the number of them who are choosing to end their lives because they do not feel well when they come back home. It is antithetical to try to prevent them from taking their own lives and yet telling them this is an opportunity to do so.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6067451\" data-originallang=\"en\">My father had Alzheimer's and passed away two and a half weeks ago. When he was barely able to still control his thoughts, he looked at my mom and his words were, \u201cWill you take care of me?\u201d That was nine years ago. The palliative care he had, the love that he had in that circumstance I cannot imagine, even though he was down to nothing, not honouring the fact of life and death in that circumstance the way it was.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6067448\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 attentivement la d\u00e9put\u00e9e. J'appr\u00e9cie ses observations sinc\u00e8res. Nous travaillons ensemble au comit\u00e9 des anciens combattants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6067449\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais lui parler de la dynamique, plus particuli\u00e8rement ici. Le projet de loi dit qu'il n'est plus n\u00e9cessaire que le d\u00e9c\u00e8s du patient soit \u00ab raisonnablement pr\u00e9visible \u00bb, mais exige encore que le patient soit affect\u00e9 \u00ab de probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9 graves et irr\u00e9m\u00e9diables \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6067450\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e et moi appr\u00e9cions les anciens combattants \u00e0 leur juste valeur, mais nous sommes tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9occup\u00e9es par le nombre d'entre eux qui choisissent de mettre fin \u00e0 leurs jours parce qu'ils ne se sentent pas bien \u00e0 leur retour. Il est antith\u00e9tique, d'une part, d'essayer de les emp\u00eacher de s'enlever la vie et, d'autre part, de leur dire qu'ils ont la possibilit\u00e9 de le faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6067451\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon p\u00e8re \u00e9tait atteint de la maladie d'Alzheimer et il est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 il y a deux semaines et demie. Alors qu'il pouvait \u00e0 peine contr\u00f4ler encore ses pens\u00e9es, il a regard\u00e9 ma m\u00e8re et a dit: \u00ab T'occuperas-tu de moi? \u00bb C'\u00e9tait il y a neuf ans. Quand je pense aux soins palliatifs qu'il a re\u00e7us, \u00e0 l'amour qu'il a re\u00e7u dans cette situation, je ne peux l'imaginer, m\u00eame s'il \u00e9tait an\u00e9anti, n'honorant pas la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de la vie et de la mort dans les circonstances.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2020/2/27/cathay-wagantall-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/cathay-wagantall/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4403/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10791211",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Criminal Code",
        "fr": "Le Code criminel"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2020/2/27/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F2%2F27%2F"
    }
}