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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2023-05-10 17:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Mike Lake",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Mike Lake"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7763357\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is nice. I am going to zero in on two points the member made. First of all is the incredible importance of connection. He talked about the Special Friends Network. The Special Olympics now has its unified program, where it is having people with developmental or intellectual disability playing alongside people without disability. Building those connections is so important to social health, mental health and all of the different aspects of our health.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7763358\" data-originallang=\"en\">The second thing is the language we use. It is interesting because he talked about struggling but then talked about strengths. Absolutely one of my missions is to focus on talking about unlocking the potential. There is a world of skills and abilities that reside in the capabilities of people with developmental disability, with intellectual disability, with autism. I see it in my son. We absolutely need to cultivate those skills and abilities, and as a society, we will all be better off for it.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7763357\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est tr\u00e8s bien. Je vais me concentrer sur deux points que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a soulign\u00e9s. Tout d'abord, il y a l'incontestable importance de tisser des liens. Il a parl\u00e9 du Special Friends Network. Les Jeux olympiques sp\u00e9ciaux ont maintenant un programme commun, o\u00f9 les personnes ayant une d\u00e9ficience d\u00e9veloppementale ou intellectuelle jouent aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de gens n'ayant pas de d\u00e9ficience. Il est extr\u00eamement important pour la sant\u00e9 sociale, la sant\u00e9 mentale et tous les aspects de la sant\u00e9 de tisser ce genre de liens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7763358\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le deuxi\u00e8me point touche le langage employ\u00e9. C'est int\u00e9ressant parce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parl\u00e9 de difficult\u00e9s, mais ensuite il a parl\u00e9 d'\u00e9panouissement. Une de mes missions absolues est de mettre l'accent sur les \u00e9changes et de miser sur le potentiel des gens. Il y a tout un monde de comp\u00e9tences et d'habilet\u00e9s qui r\u00e9side dans les capacit\u00e9s des personnes qui vivent avec une d\u00e9ficience d\u00e9veloppementale, une d\u00e9ficience intellectuelle ou l'autisme. Je l'observe chez mon fils. Nous devons absolument cultiver ces comp\u00e9tences et ces habilet\u00e9s collectivement, car nous en tirerions tous avantage.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/5/10/mike-lake-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/mike-lake/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4302/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12203638",
"h1": {
"en": "Private Members' Business",
"fr": "Affaires \u00e9manant des d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities",
"fr": "L'inclusion des personnes en situation de handicap"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/5/10/",
"related": {
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}
}