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{
"time": "2022-09-28 14:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mark Strahl (Chilliwack\u2014Hope, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Mark Strahl (Chilliwack\u2014Hope, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7305088\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, from 1896 to 1948 the British Home Child program saw over 100,000 boys and girls shipped from the United Kingdom to Canada to serve mainly as cheap labour for the families they were placed with here. While some of these children were treated well, many others were seen as no more than indentured servants and suffered horrible abuse at the hands of those who were supposed to care for them.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7305089\" data-originallang=\"en\">In spite of this, many British home children would go on to serve Canada with distinction in the Canadian Forces throughout the 20th century. It is estimated that four million Canadians are descendants of British home children, including me. My great-grandfather, Sheriff Atcheson Thompson, came to this country as a British home child in 1915, at the young age of 12.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7305090\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to thank people like my grandma, Carol Bateman, who continue to keep the stories of British home children alive and who continue to call upon the government to apologize for the program these children suffered under. Today, on British Home Child Day, let us pause to remember them and their legacy to our country.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7305088\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, dans le cadre du programme des petits immigr\u00e9s anglais, qui a eu cours de 1896 \u00e0 1948, plus de 100 000 gar\u00e7ons et filles du Royaume-Uni ont \u00e9t\u00e9 envoy\u00e9s au Canada principalement pour devenir la main-d'\u0153uvre bon march\u00e9 des familles dans lesquelles ils \u00e9taient plac\u00e9s. Bien que certains de ces enfants aient \u00e9t\u00e9 bien trait\u00e9s, beaucoup d'autres \u00e9taient vus comme des serviteurs \u00e0 contrat et \u00e9taient terriblement maltrait\u00e9s par les gens cens\u00e9s prendre soin d'eux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7305089\" data-originallang=\"en\">Malgr\u00e9 cela, une fois adultes, beaucoup de ces petits immigr\u00e9s anglais ont servi le Canada avec distinction au sein des Forces canadiennes au cours du XX<sup>e</sup> si\u00e8cle. On estime que quatre millions de Canadiens ont pour anc\u00eatres des petits immigr\u00e9s anglais. C'est mon cas: mon arri\u00e8re-grand-p\u00e8re, Sheriff Atcheson Thompson, est venu au Canada en tant que petit immigr\u00e9 anglais en 1915, \u00e0 l'\u00e2ge de 12 ans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7305090\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie les gens qui, comme ma grand-m\u00e8re, Carol Bateman, continuent de faire conna\u00eetre l'histoire des petits immigr\u00e9s anglais et de demander au gouvernement de pr\u00e9senter des excuses pour le programme qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 source de souffrance pour ces enfants. En cette Journ\u00e9e des petits immigr\u00e9s anglais, prenons un instant pour honorer leur m\u00e9moire et l'h\u00e9ritage qu'ils ont laiss\u00e9 au Canada.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/9/28/mark-strahl-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mark-strahl/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4359/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11823288",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "British Home Child Day",
"fr": "La Journ\u00e9e des petits immigr\u00e9s anglais"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/9/28/",
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}
}