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{
"time": "2024-04-09 14:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Marcus Powlowski (Thunder Bay\u2014Rainy River, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8315730\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, every three minutes in Canada, someone is diagnosed with cancer, a diagnosis that will change their life and the lives of all their family members forever because, if one is diagnosed with cancer, pretty well everything else in life, including much of what we do here, seems pretty insignificant in comparison.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8315731\" data-originallang=\"en\">The COVID pandemic showed us what the global scientific community can do when it puts its collective mind toward something. Experts were predicting it was going to take us years to come up with vaccines, and we came up with several within a year. Why can we not do the same thing to try to beat cancer?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8315732\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the United States, the Biden administration has pledged to prevent four million deaths by the year 2047. We in Canada can and ought to make a similar commitment. Nothing in life is ever accomplished unless one tries.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8315730\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, toutes les trois minutes au Canada, une personne re\u00e7oit un diagnostic de cancer, un diagnostic qui changera \u00e0 jamais sa vie et celle de tous les membres de sa famille parce que lorsqu'une personne re\u00e7oit un diagnostic de cancer, \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s tout le reste, y compris une grande partie de ce que nous faisons ici, semble plut\u00f4t insignifiant en comparaison.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8315731\" data-originallang=\"en\">La pand\u00e9mie de COVID nous a montr\u00e9 ce que la communaut\u00e9 scientifique mondiale peut faire lorsqu\u2019elle se penche collectivement sur un probl\u00e8me. Les experts pr\u00e9disaient qu'il nous faudrait des ann\u00e9es pour mettre au point des vaccins, et nous en avons produit plusieurs en un an. Pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas faire la m\u00eame chose pour essayer de vaincre le cancer?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8315732\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aux \u00c9tats\u2011Unis, l'administration Biden s'est engag\u00e9e \u00e0 pr\u00e9venir 4 millions de d\u00e9c\u00e8s d'ici 2047. Le Canada peut et doit prendre un engagement semblable. Dans la vie, si on ne tente rien, on n'accomplit rien.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/4/9/marcus-powlowski-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/marcus-powlowski/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4551/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12662521",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements by Members",
"fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Cancer Research",
"fr": "La recherche sur le cancer"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/4/9/",
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}
}