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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-09-18 16:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Rhonda Kirkland",
"fr": "Rhonda Kirkland"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8874728\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, that is a very important question, and honestly I do not know whether I have the exactly right answer, because the government has proven, since its beginning, that women will always be shut down. We have seen it over and over again. The Liberals do not care about women. They claim to care about women, but they are not doing the things they need to do to protect women or to listen to them, and Cait Alexander is a good example of that. She was shut down in committee. How horrifying that was for a woman who was left for dead by her ex-partner and wanted to speak about it. What do Liberals do? They say, \u201cNo, thank you, we don't want to hear your voice.\u201d It is shameful.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8874728\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il s'agit d'une question tr\u00e8s importante. Honn\u00eatement, je ne pense pas avoir une r\u00e9ponse tout \u00e0 fait exacte, parce que depuis ses d\u00e9buts, le gouvernement a montr\u00e9 qu'il fera toujours taire les femmes. C'est ce que nous avons constat\u00e9 \u00e0 maintes reprises. Les lib\u00e9raux ne se soucient pas des femmes. Ils pr\u00e9tendent que oui, mais ils ne font pas ce qu'il faut pour les prot\u00e9ger ou pour les \u00e9couter, et Cait Alexander en est un bon exemple. On l'a fait taire au comit\u00e9. C'est \u00e9pouvantable. Une femme qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 laiss\u00e9e pour morte par son ex-conjoint souhaite parler de son exp\u00e9rience, et que font les lib\u00e9raux? Ils ne veulent pas entendre son t\u00e9moignage. C'est une honte.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/9/18/rhonda-kirkland-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/rhonda-kirkland/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4770/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13125334",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Violent Crime and Repeat Offenders",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Crimes violents et r\u00e9cidivistes"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/9/18/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F9%2F18%2F"
}
}