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{
    "time": "2024-04-29 14:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Pierre Poilievre (chef de l\u2019opposition, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8359714\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the minister is wasting time while people are dying.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8359715\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In the year after this radical <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> granted the decriminalization of crack, heroin and other hard drugs in parks and hospitals, 2,500 people died. Overdose deaths, during the nine years of the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a>, have tripled, the fastest rising of the 11 countries studied by the Commonwealth Fund. Nurses are afraid to go to work because they have to put up with addicts using meth, crack and weapons in their hospital rooms. Nurses are having to give up on breastfeeding, because they are worried their kids will be contaminated with the drugs they breathe in. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8359716\" data-originallang=\"en\">What the hell are they thinking over there?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8359714\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la ministre perd du temps pendant que des gens meurent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8359715\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Pendant l'ann\u00e9e qui a suivi l'approbation par ce <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> radical de la d\u00e9criminalisation du crack, de l'h\u00e9ro\u00efne et d'autres drogues dures dans les parcs et les h\u00f4pitaux, 2 500 personnes sont d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9es. Apr\u00e8s neuf ans sous la gouverne du <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a>, les d\u00e9c\u00e8s par surdose ont tripl\u00e9, ce qui repr\u00e9sente l'augmentation la plus rapide parmi les 11 pays \u00e9tudi\u00e9s par le Fonds du Commonwealth. Le personnel infirmier a peur d'aller travailler parce qu'il doit composer avec des toxicomanes arm\u00e9s qui consomment de la m\u00e9thamph\u00e9tamine et du crack dans leur chambre d'h\u00f4pital. Des infirmi\u00e8res doivent renoncer \u00e0 l'allaitement parce qu'elles craignent que leurs enfants soient contamin\u00e9s par les drogues qu'elles respirent. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8359716\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont entre les deux maudites oreilles?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/4/29/pierre-poilievre-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pierre-poilievre/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4214/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12700503",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Mental Health and Addictions",
        "fr": "La sant\u00e9 mentale et les d\u00e9pendances"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/4/29/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F4%2F29%2F"
    }
}