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{
"time": "2006-12-05 09:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi (Kitchener\u2014Waterloo, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"365568\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, Chair. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"365569\" data-originallang=\"en\">Welcome. It's interesting that we're talking about refugee policy. Right about this time 50 years ago, Canada dramatically altered its refugee policies to deal with 38,000 Hungarians, and I imagine at this point in time it was in full flow with Minister Pickersgill, over in Europe, doing something that Canada had never done before in terms of resettlement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"365570\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I will take a look at some of the issues here. You mentioned with the backlog--and we always are in a backlog in this department--that you have 15,000 people in line for the PSR program. You also mentioned that any more resources there would take away from the normal running of the program. It seems to me, unless we have some people to fill the vacancies for the refugee board, our backlog is going to get worse and the waiting time is going to get longer.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"365571\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would you like to comment on that?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"365568\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"365569\" data-originallang=\"en\">Soyez les bienvenus. Il est int\u00e9ressant de parler de la politique sur les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s. \u00c0 peu pr\u00e8s au m\u00eame moment il y a 50 ans, le Canada a modifi\u00e9 de fond en comble ses politiques sur les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s pour accueillir 38 000 Hongrois, et j\u2019imagine qu\u2019\u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0, tout cela se faisait de plein accord avec le ministre Pickersgill, en Europe, le Canada faisant alors quelque chose qu\u2019il n\u2019avait jamais fait en mati\u00e8re de r\u00e9\u00e9tablissement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"365570\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais aborder quelques \u00e9l\u00e9ments. Vous avez parl\u00e9 de l\u2019arri\u00e9r\u00e9 \u2014 et il y a toujours arri\u00e9r\u00e9 dans ce minist\u00e8re \u2014 vous avez dit que 15 000 personnes attendaient pour profiter du PPPR. Vous avez dit que l\u2019ajout de ressources viendrait nuire au fonctionnement normal du programme. Il me semble, \u00e0 moins que l\u2019on trouve des personnes pour combler les postes vacants \u00e0 la CISR, que notre arri\u00e9r\u00e9 va s\u2019empirer et que le d\u00e9lai de traitement sera plus long.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"365571\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu\u2019en pensez-vous?</p>"
},
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