Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2012-04-30 16:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Costas Menegakis (Richmond Hill, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Costas Menegakis (Richmond Hill, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2837251\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837252\" data-originallang=\"en\">Welcome, gentlemen. Thank you very much for your presentations here today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837253\" data-originallang=\"en\">The intent of Bill <a data-HoCid=\"5383493\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act\">C-31</a> is to help facilitate the process to make it faster. The intent was not to penalize people who legitimately seek our assistance. With the new measures in the bill, the time to finalize a refugee claim, a legitimate refugee claim, would drop from a current average of 1,038 days to 45 days for claimants from designated countries of origin, or 216 days for all other claimants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837254\" data-originallang=\"en\">So we can imagine what a huge benefit this will be to somebody who's really seeking and needing asylum from persecution in their own nation. In my opinion, that's a big positive of this bill. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837255\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Collacott, let me preface my question by saying that human smuggling seeks to circumvent the proper channels. In your opinion, are human smuggling rings becoming more elaborate?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2837251\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837252\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bienvenue, messieurs. Merci beaucoup d'\u00eatre venus pr\u00e9senter un expos\u00e9 ici aujourd'hui. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837253\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"5383493\" href=\"/bills/41-1/C-31/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, the Marine Transportation Security Act and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Act\">C-31</a> a pour but de faciliter le processus et de le rendre plus rapide. Le but n'\u00e9tait pas de p\u00e9naliser les gens qui, l\u00e9gitimement, demandent notre aide. Gr\u00e2ce aux nouvelles mesures pr\u00e9vues dans le projet de loi, le d\u00e9lai de traitement d'une demande d'asile \u2014, une demande l\u00e9gitime \u2014 pourrait \u00eatre r\u00e9duit et passer de la moyenne actuelle, qui est de 1 038 jours, \u00e0 45 jours pour les demandeurs d'un pays d'origine d\u00e9sign\u00e9, ou \u00e0 216 jours pour tous les autres demandeurs d'asile. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837254\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous pouvons donc imaginer quel avantage \u00e9norme cela repr\u00e9senterait pour quiconque cherche l'asile et a vraiment besoin de l'asile, pour une personne qui est pers\u00e9cut\u00e9e dans son propre pays. \u00c0 mon avis, c'est l\u00e0 un des grands avantages de ce projet de loi. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2837255\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Collacott, je vais, avant de poser ma question, poser en postulat que les r\u00e9seaux de passeurs de clandestins cherchent \u00e0 contourner les voies l\u00e9gales. \u00c0 votre avis, est-ce que les r\u00e9seaux de passeurs sont en train de se complexifier?</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/immigration/41-1/33/costas-menegakis-1/",
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    "document_url": "/committees/immigration/41-1/33/",
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