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{
"time": "2020-08-12 15:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014Baie James, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6254667\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, there are two pandemics in the country right now. We have COVID and an opioid pandemic. The opioid pandemic is very similar to COVID, in cutting across all sectors of society: rural, urban, rich and poor. I want to ask my hon. colleague about what he has seen in his community. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6254668\" data-originallang=\"en\">We know that in our Far North, the communities in Treaty 9 are so desperate to stop the opioids that they have people at the airports trying to stop the drugs from coming in because they have no other supports. In the city of Timmins, the police are working with mental health workers on the streets, trying to deal with this because they recognize that this is beyond criminal. This is a massive mental health crisis and we are seeing deaths, suffering and families being broken apart from the devastation from these drugs. We really want to be able to stop the pushers who are making these drugs, particularly fentanyl and its destructive nature, but we need to have measures of support to get people out of the nightmare of opioid addictions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6254669\" data-originallang=\"en\">What has my hon. colleague seen on the west coast and what steps can we take in this Parliament in the midst of this COVID pandemic to deal with the other pandemic, the opioid crisis?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6254667\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, deux pand\u00e9mies frappent le pays actuellement. Il y a la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19, et il y a la crise des opio\u00efdes. Cette crise ressemble beaucoup \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19 dans la mesure o\u00f9 elle touche des gens de tous les groupes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, qu'ils vivent en r\u00e9gion rurale ou urbaine, qu'ils soient riches ou pauvres. J'aimerais demander \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue ce qu'il a vu dans sa collectivit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6254668\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous savons que, dans le Grand Nord canadien, les communaut\u00e9s du Trait\u00e9 n<sup>o</sup> 9 ont si d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment besoin de mettre fin \u00e0 la crise des opio\u00efdes qu'il y a des gens dans les a\u00e9roports qui tentent d'emp\u00eacher les drogues d'entrer sur le territoire, parce qu'ils n'ont aucune autre aide. \u00c0 Timmins, la police collabore avec les intervenants en sant\u00e9 mentale dans les rues afin de combattre ce fl\u00e9au, car ils savent que le probl\u00e8me va au-del\u00e0 de la criminalit\u00e9. Nous devons faire face \u00e0 une grave crise de sant\u00e9 mentale, et nous avons vu des morts, de la souffrance et des familles bris\u00e9es \u00e0 cause des ravages caus\u00e9s par ces drogues. Nous voulons vraiment pouvoir arr\u00eater les trafiquants qui fabriquent ces drogues destructrices, en particulier le fentanyl, mais il faut prendre d'autres mesures pour aider les gens \u00e0 se sortir de l'enfer de la d\u00e9pendance aux opio\u00efdes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6254669\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu'est-ce que mon coll\u00e8gue a vu sur la c\u00f4te Ouest, et pendant cette pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19, quelles mesures pouvons-nous adopter au Parlement afin de combattre l'autre pand\u00e9mie, soit la crise des opio\u00efdes?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/8/12/charlie-angus-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10926355",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Business No. 10",
"fr": "L'affaire \u00e9manant du gouvernement no 10"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/8/12/",
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}