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{
"time": "2025-06-11 15:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Brad Vis (Mission\u2014Matsqui\u2014Abbotsford, CPC)",
"fr": "Brad Vis (Mission\u2014Matsqui\u2014Abbotsford, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8846451\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition on behalf of British Columbians who are facing repeated closures of hospital emergency rooms. In my riding, some of those closures took place during the Chilcotin landslides, on the hottest day in 2024 and on many days since. While hospital closures are regularly blamed on staffing shortages, delays in recognition of foreign-trained health care workers and a critical lack of housing supply are exacerbating the issue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8846452\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners call on the Government of Canada to work with provincial counterparts to ensure that foreign-trained health care workers are notified within 60 days of their eligibility to practise and to address the severe lack of available housing for such workers. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8846451\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends la parole aujourd'hui pour pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition au nom des Britanno-Colombiens qui font face \u00e0 des fermetures r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9es des services d'urgence des h\u00f4pitaux. Dans ma circonscription, certaines de ces fermetures ont eu lieu pendant les glissements de terrain de Chilcotin, au cours de la journ\u00e9e la plus chaude de 2024 et \u00e0 de nombreuses reprises depuis. Bien que les fermetures d'h\u00f4pitaux soient r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement attribu\u00e9es au manque de personnel, les retards dans la reconnaissance des qualifications des travailleurs de la sant\u00e9 form\u00e9s \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger et le manque criant de logements aggravent le probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8846452\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement du Canada de collaborer avec les provinces pour faire en sorte que les travailleurs de la sant\u00e9 form\u00e9s \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger soient inform\u00e9s de leur admissibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 exercer leur profession dans un d\u00e9lai de 60 jours. Ils veulent aussi que le gouvernement rem\u00e9die \u00e0 la grave p\u00e9nurie de logements disponibles pour ces travailleurs.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/6/11/brad-vis-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/brad-vis/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4836/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13092208",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Health Care Workers",
"fr": "Les travailleurs de la sant\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/6/11/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F6%2F11%2F"
}
}