Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2022-10-25 12:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Adam van Koeverden",
        "fr": "M. Adam van Koeverden"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7359590\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, the word \u201cdiversity\u201d brings about a different sense or meaning for a lot of people. This place contains a lot of diversity in terms of our backgrounds, beliefs and systems. However, we are in a country called Canada with many distinct nations and distinct identities, and they are all welcome here. I do not see any reason why we cannot work together despite some of the differences. Conversations like this, civil discourse on an important subject, are important. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7359591\" data-originallang=\"en\">Earlier I heard a member from the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois mention colonialism. I know it is a challenge for many of us to consider how we are a nation that was built on colonialism, but the Commonwealth is not the only nation responsible for colonialism. France also participated in acts of colonialism. My father's family came from the Netherlands, which had some of the most brutal colonialists, as well as the Belgians and Portuguese. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7359592\" data-originallang=\"en\">Colonialism is a global phenomenon. Here in Canada, because we have a British head of state in the monarchy, we refer to colonialism as a British thing, but many other countries and nations had an impact on colonialism in Canada as well.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7359590\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le mot \u00ab diversit\u00e9 \u00bb a un sens diff\u00e9rent pour beaucoup de gens. Cet endroit contient beaucoup de diversit\u00e9 sur le plan des origines, des croyances et des syst\u00e8mes. Cependant, nous sommes dans un pays appel\u00e9 le Canada qui compte de nombreuses nations et identit\u00e9s distinctes, et elles sont toutes les bienvenues ici. Je ne vois pas du tout pourquoi nous ne pourrions pas travailler ensemble malgr\u00e9 certaines diff\u00e9rences. Il est important d'avoir des dialogues comme celui-ci, un discours civilis\u00e9 sur un sujet important.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7359591\" data-originallang=\"en\">Plus t\u00f4t, j\u2019ai entendu un membre du Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois mentionner le colonialisme. Je sais que c\u2019est un d\u00e9fi pour beaucoup d\u2019entre nous de consid\u00e9rer que nous sommes une nation qui s\u2019est construite sur le colonialisme, mais le Commonwealth n\u2019est pas la seule nation responsable du colonialisme. La France a \u00e9galement particip\u00e9 \u00e0 des actes de colonialisme. La famille de mon p\u00e8re \u00e9tait originaire des Pays-Bas, qui a compt\u00e9, avec la Belgique et le Portugal, certains des colonialistes les plus brutaux qui soient.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7359592\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le colonialisme est un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne mondial. Ici, au Canada, parce que nous avons un chef d\u2019\u00c9tat issu de la monarchie britannique, nous consid\u00e9rons le colonialisme comme une affaire britannique, mais de nombreux autres pays et nations ont eu un impact sur le colonialisme au Canada \u00e9galement.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/10/25/adam-van-koeverden-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/adam-van-koeverden/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4526/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11878938",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Ties Between the Canadian State and the Monarchy",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les liens entre l\u2019\u00c9tat canadien et la monarchie"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/10/25/",
    "related": {
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    }
}