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{
"time": "2024-10-31 14:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-Est, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8661053\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, after three decades of Conservative and Liberal government failures, Canada's community housing stock is the lowest among the G7 countries. There are about 5,000 people in the Lower Mainland who do not have a place to call home. They have little choice but to try to survive on the street or in encampments. However, what is abundantly clear is that forced evictions do not fix anything; they just make the unhoused more homeless. People need dignity, not decampment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8661054\" data-originallang=\"en\">CRAB Park's tent city residents have travelled from Vancouver East to Ottawa this week for the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness conference. They want to see a tiny home village develop on the vacant port of Vancouver parking lot. The federal government can take immediate action and invest in this solution to help end homelessness. Moreover, this can be replicated from coast to coast to coast, in communities large and small. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8661055\" data-originallang=\"en\">Talk is cheap. It is time to realize housing as a basic human right.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8661053\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, apr\u00e8s 30 ans d'incomp\u00e9tence de la part des gouvernements conservateurs et lib\u00e9raux, le Canada a le plus petit parc de logements communautaires des pays du G7. Dans la vall\u00e9e du bas Fraser, environ 5 000 personnes n'ont pas leur propre toit. Elles n'ont d'autre choix que d'essayer de survivre dans la rue ou dans des campements. Il est cependant \u00e9vident que les expulsions forc\u00e9es n'arrangent rien; elles ne font qu'augmenter le nombre de sans-abri. Les gens ont besoin de dignit\u00e9, pas de campement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8661054\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les habitants du village de tentes du parc CRAB sont partis de Vancouver-Est pour se rendre \u00e0 Ottawa cette semaine \u00e0 l'occasion de la conf\u00e9rence de l'Alliance canadienne pour mettre fin \u00e0 l'itin\u00e9rance. Ils demandent que l'on construise un village de petites maisons sur le terrain de stationnement vacant du port de Vancouver. Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral peut agir imm\u00e9diatement et investir dans cette solution pour aider \u00e0 mettre fin \u00e0 l'itin\u00e9rance. De plus, cette solution peut \u00eatre reproduite d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du pays, dans les petites et grandes collectivit\u00e9s. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8661055\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est facile de parler. Il est temps de consid\u00e9rer le logement comme un droit humain fondamental.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/10/31/jenny-kwan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jenny-kwan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4248/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12965899",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Housing",
"fr": "Le logement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/10/31/",
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}
}