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{
"time": "2014-05-01 10:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jason Kenney",
"fr": "L'hon. Jason Kenney"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3710524\" data-originallang=\"en\">Well, I'll take the question as having been more of a rhetorical question. Let me just say let's be a wee bit careful about this language of displacing Canadians. I saw on Twitter last night that a Liberal MP said something about how we were letting foreigners take Canadian jobs. That language can lead to a coarsening of the public discourse on immigration and a lot of things. Let's be a wee bit careful about this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3710525\" data-originallang=\"en\"> For example, we have a new skilled trades permanent residency immigration program. I don't want us, as parliamentarians, telling Canadians that when those people come as permanent residents\u2014for example, many of them starting on their work permit as temporary foreign workers\u2014that they're somehow foreigners taking jobs from Canadians. You didn't say that Ms. Sims, but some of the debate is starting to go in that direction.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3710524\" data-originallang=\"en\">Eh bien, je vais interpr\u00e9ter votre question comme une question rh\u00e9torique. Permettez-moi de dire tout simplement qu'il faut bien peser ses mots lorsqu'on parle de couper l'herbe sous le pied des Canadiens. J'ai vu sur Twitter, hier soir, qu'un d\u00e9put\u00e9 lib\u00e9ral disait qu'on permettait aux \u00e9trangers de prendre les emplois des Canadiens. Ce genre de langage peut entra\u00eener un durcissement du discours public sur l'immigration et sur bien d'autres choses. Soyons un petit peu prudents \u00e0 ce sujet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3710525\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons, par exemple, un nouveau programme de r\u00e9sidence permanente pour ceux qui ont un m\u00e9tier sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9. En tant que parlementaire, je ne veux pas que l'on dise aux Canadiens que les gens qui viennent comme r\u00e9sidents permanents \u2014 par exemple, beaucoup d'entre eux commencent \u00e0 travailler avec un permis de travail en tant que travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires \u2014 sont, d'une fa\u00e7on ou d'une autre, des \u00e9trangers qui font perdre des emplois aux Canadiens. Ce n'est pas ce que vous avez dit, madame Sims, mais une partie du d\u00e9bat se dirige dans cette direction.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/human-resources/41-2/20/jason-kenney-57/",
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