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{
"time": "2025-10-06 15:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NDP)",
"fr": "Gord Johns (Courtenay\u2014Alberni, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8895300\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to bring forward a petition on behalf of Canadians, especially petitioners from the Port Alberni Friendship Center, which is in the process of, next week, having its sixtieth anniversary.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8895301\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners are calling for enhanced support for friendship centres. They highlight that friendship centres are vital community hubs providing culturally appropriate services in health, education, housing, employment and youth programming. They note that governments have increasingly relied on these centres to respond to socio-economic conditions, climate emergencies and the toxic drug crisis, yet federal funding has not kept pace with inflation or the real cost of services since 2005.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8895302\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners therefore call on the Government of Canada to provide enhanced, stable and predictable funding, to invest in the modernization of facilities and to fully recognize the critical role friendship centres play in reconciliation and in supporting indigenous peoples across urban, rural and remote communities. We owe them a ton of gratitude.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8895300\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est un honneur de pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition au nom des Canadiens, en particulier des p\u00e9titionnaires du centre d'amiti\u00e9 de Port Alberni, qui c\u00e9l\u00e9brera son soixanti\u00e8me anniversaire la semaine prochaine.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8895301\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent un soutien accru pour les centres d'amiti\u00e9. Ils soulignent que ces centres repr\u00e9sentent des p\u00f4les communautaires essentiels qui offrent des services culturellement adapt\u00e9s dans les domaines de la sant\u00e9, de l'\u00e9ducation, du logement, de l'emploi et de la jeunesse. Ils soulignent que les gouvernements comptent de plus en plus sur ces centres pour r\u00e9agir aux conditions socio\u00e9conomiques, aux urgences climatiques et \u00e0 la crise des drogues toxiques, mais que le financement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral n'a pas suivi le rythme de l'inflation ni le co\u00fbt r\u00e9el des services depuis 2005.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8895302\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par cons\u00e9quent, les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement du Canada de fournir \u00e0 ces centres un financement accru, stable et pr\u00e9visible, d'investir dans la modernisation des installations et de reconna\u00eetre pleinement le r\u00f4le essentiel des centres d'amiti\u00e9 dans la r\u00e9conciliation et le soutien aux peuples autochtones dans les communaut\u00e9s urbaines, rurales et \u00e9loign\u00e9es. Nous leur devons une immense gratitude.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/6/gord-johns-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gord-johns/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4237/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13158630",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Friendship Centres",
"fr": "Les centres d'amiti\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/6/",
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}
}