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{
"time": "2024-05-29 21:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Chris Bittle",
"fr": "M. Chris Bittle"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8429618\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Madam Chair, I have been hearing a question to the Minister of Health again. I have been listening with interest throughout this debate, and I take the Conservatives at their word that they are concerned about the opioid crisis. They are seeing it in their communities, as we are seeing it in all of our communities, affecting people across the community.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8429619\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I went on a ride-along with my local fire department, and we got a call: vital signs absent. We raced down to Montebello Park. The image that burns into my brain is the legs of a resident of St. Catharines sticking out of the stall in the washroom in Montebello Park. Paramedics brought that person back, as paramedics, firefighters and first responders are heroically doing across the country. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8429620\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, I was wondering if the minister could comment on what we are hearing in response to what I believe is health care: addiction and mental health. I know the Conservatives say that it is health care, but what I am hearing is just a repackaged version of what we tried in the seventies, eighties and nineties, which was \u201cJust say no\u201d. The <a data-HoCid=\"300010\" href=\"/politicians/mark-holland/\" title=\"Mark Holland\">Minister of Health</a> talked about Newt Gingrich and the common-sense revolution, the harsh law-and-order penalties. We have tried to solve this as a society, through\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8429618\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai entendu une question qui a encore une fois \u00e9t\u00e9 pos\u00e9e au ministre de la Sant\u00e9. J'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 avec int\u00e9r\u00eat tout le d\u00e9bat, et je crois les conservateurs sur parole lorsqu'ils disent qu'ils s'inqui\u00e8tent de la crise des opio\u00efdes. Ils en sont t\u00e9moins dans leur collectivit\u00e9, comme nous tous. Des gens de partout au pays sont touch\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8429619\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai eu l'occasion d'accompagner des pompiers du service des incendies local, et nous avons re\u00e7u un appel: c'\u00e9tait pour une personne sans signes vitaux. Nous avons fonc\u00e9 jusqu'au parc Montebello. L'image qui est rest\u00e9e grav\u00e9e dans ma m\u00e9moire est celle des jambes d'un habitant de St. Catharines que l'on voyait d\u00e9passer de la cabine des toilettes au parc Montebello. Les ambulanciers param\u00e9dicaux ont ramen\u00e9 cette personne \u00e0 la vie, comme le font h\u00e9ro\u00efquement les ambulanciers param\u00e9dicaux, les pompiers et les premiers r\u00e9pondants partout au pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8429620\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela dit, je me demandais si la ministre pourrait nous parler de ce que nous entendons dire relativement aux d\u00e9pendances et \u00e0 la sant\u00e9 mentale, lesquels sont \u00e0 mon avis des probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9. Je sais que les conservateurs l'affirment \u00e9galement, mais leur solution ne semble \u00eatre qu'une version recycl\u00e9e de ce que nous avons essay\u00e9 dans les ann\u00e9es 1970, 1980 et 1990, c'est-\u00e0-dire \u00ab Disons non \u00bb. Le <a data-HoCid=\"300010\" href=\"/politicians/mark-holland/\" title=\"Mark Holland\">ministre de la Sant\u00e9</a> a parl\u00e9 de Newt Gingrich, de la r\u00e9volution du bon sens, et des sanctions s\u00e9v\u00e8res ax\u00e9es sur la loi et l'ordre. Notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 a tent\u00e9 de r\u00e9soudre ce probl\u00e8me par la voie...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/5/29/chris-bittle-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/chris-bittle/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4341/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12773047",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Department of Health\u2014Main Estimates, 2024-25",
"fr": "Minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 \u2014 Le Budget principal des d\u00e9penses 2024\u20112025"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/5/29/",
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}