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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2024-10-01 20:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8576529\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I know my colleague to be a strong defender of human rights and a very serious member of Parliament. His constituents are lucky to have him.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8576530\" data-originallang=\"en\">I spent today speaking to Edmontonians and Lebanese Canadians who are very desperate to get more information on how to get their loved ones out of Lebanon. Unfortunately, right now, a lot of the application process happens online. Their loved ones have no power and no Internet access, so they are not able to complete the forms. It is chaos. Their loved ones are in a war zone, and they are so desperate to get them out, but they do not know who to turn to. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8576531\" data-originallang=\"en\">The response of the government depends, as it always does in these war situations, upon a level of stability that is currently not available in Lebanon. I am wondering what my colleague thinks the government could do to help those individuals. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8576529\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je sais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 est un ardent d\u00e9fenseur des droits de la personne et qu'il est tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieux. Ses concitoyens ont de la chance de l'avoir comme d\u00e9put\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8576530\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai pass\u00e9 la journ\u00e9e \u00e0 parler \u00e0 des Edmontoniens et \u00e0 des Canadiens d'origine libanaise qui cherchent d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment \u00e0 obtenir plus de renseignements sur la fa\u00e7on de faire sortir leurs proches du Liban. Malheureusement, \u00e0 l'heure actuelle, une grande partie du processus de demande se d\u00e9roule en ligne. Or, puisque leurs proches n'ont ni \u00e9lectricit\u00e9 ni acc\u00e8s \u00e0 Internet, ils ne sont pas en mesure de remplir les formulaires. C'est le chaos. Leurs proches se trouvent dans une zone de guerre et ils cherchent d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9ment \u00e0 les faire sortir, mais ils ne savent pas vers qui se tourner.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8576531\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme c'est toujours le cas dans les situations de guerre, la r\u00e9ponse du gouvernement d\u00e9pend d'un niveau de stabilit\u00e9 qui n'existe pas actuellement au Liban. Je me demande ce que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 pense que le gouvernement pourrait faire pour aider ces personnes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/10/1/heather-mcpherson-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/heather-mcpherson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12895079",
"h1": {
"en": "Emergency Debate",
"fr": "D\u00e9bat d'urgence"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Situation in Lebanon and Israel",
"fr": "La situation au Liban et en Isra\u00ebl"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/10/1/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F10%2F1%2F"
}
}