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{
    "time": "2022-11-29 17:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Maril\u00e8ne Gill",
        "fr": "Mme Maril\u00e8ne Gill"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7465756\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, if I were to try to sum up my thoughts on the importance of the council with respect to the calls to action and how effective the council itself will be, I would say that it is going to be up to the indigenous people themselves.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7465757\" data-originallang=\"fr\">One of the things I forgot to mention in my speech is that one of the government's responsibilities will be to provide all the information that indigenous people feel is necessary to do this work.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7465758\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That is important, but the government will not be able to free itself of all its responsibilities, either. It must ensure that it does not prevent the council from functioning properly.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7465759\" data-originallang=\"fr\">On the one hand, the council must be independent, but at the same time, the government is responsible for providing everything that is needed for concrete action to be taken until the Indian Act and all colonial practices are completely abandoned.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7465756\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, si j'essayais de r\u00e9sumer ma pens\u00e9e, sur l'importance du conseil par rapport aux appels \u00e0 l'action, de m\u00eame que l'efficacit\u00e9 qu'aura ce conseil, je dirais que ce seront les Autochtones qui le d\u00e9cideront eux-m\u00eames.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7465757\" data-originallang=\"fr\">D'ailleurs, il y a un \u00e9l\u00e9ment que j'ai oubli\u00e9 de mentionner pendant mon allocution, mais le gouvernement sera, entre autres, responsable de fournir toutes les informations que les Autochtones jugeront n\u00e9cessaires pour pouvoir faire ce travail.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7465758\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est important, mais le gouvernement ne pourra pas non plus se lib\u00e9rer de chacune de ses responsabilit\u00e9s pour faire en sorte que, justement, il n'emp\u00eache pas le bon fonctionnement du conseil.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7465759\" data-originallang=\"fr\">D'un c\u00f4t\u00e9, il y a l'ind\u00e9pendance du conseil, mais, en m\u00eame temps, il y a toute la responsabilit\u00e9 qui incombe au gouvernement de donner tout ce qui est n\u00e9cessaire pour qu'on puisse avoir des actions concr\u00e8tes jusqu'\u00e0 ce qu'on se d\u00e9partisse compl\u00e8tement de la Loi sur les Indiens et de l'ensemble des pratiques colonialistes.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/11/29/marilene-gill-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/marilene-gill/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4433/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11962258",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "National Council for Reconciliation Act",
        "fr": "Loi portant sur un conseil national de r\u00e9conciliation"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2022/11/29/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F11%2F29%2F"
    }
}