{"id":238172,"date":"2014-10-22T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/mauril-belanger-member-statement-for-co-op-week-2014\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:00:46","slug":"mauril-belanger-member-statement-for-co-op-week-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/mauril-belanger-member-statement-for-co-op-week-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauril B\u00e9langer, Member Statement for Co-op Week 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzVCXfUYi1A?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TEXT OF THE STATEMENT<br \/>\nOn October 10th 2014, the Liberal Advocate for Co-operatives, Honourable Mauril B\u00e9langer, made the following statement in the House of Commons regarding Co-op Week:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Speaker, the first International Summit of Cooperatives was held in October 2012, in Quebec City. The second summit, which I was pleased to attend this week, from October 6 to 9, again in Quebec City, was another success. There were more than 3,000 participants from 93 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Major themes were addressed, including the role of the co-operative movement in ensuring our capacity to feed humanity, keep people healthy and contribute to sustainable development. The great thing is that the summit ends on the eve of Co-op Week, which will be celebrated across Canada from October 13 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>A good way for us to celebrate co-op week would be for MPs to visit co-operatives in their riding during that week.<\/p>\n<p>The co-operative model has been a proven structure for more than 100 years in Canada. They greatly empower each member, resulting in a wonderful combination of business success and social responsibility, which plays an important role in the economy and in the betterment of our communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXT OF THE STATEMENT On October 10th 2014, the Liberal Advocate for Co-operatives, Honourable Mauril B\u00e9langer, made the following statement in the House of Commons regarding Co-op Week: Mr. Speaker, the first International Summit of Cooperatives was held in October 2012, in Quebec City. The second summit, which I was pleased to attend this week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238345,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238172\/revisions\/238345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}