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{
"time": "2022-05-05 12:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Brad Redekopp (Saskatoon West, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Brad Redekopp (Saskatoon-Ouest, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7152582\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Madam Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152583\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you to all the witnesses for joining us here today. I appreciate their presence here. I'm sorry for the late start, but that's the way life is around here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152584\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'm going to start with the Afghan interpreters.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152585\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I had the pleasure to sit on the Special Committee on Afghanistan just a bit ago. Sally Armstrong, a Canadian journalist, was at the committee and was speaking about the horrors that she had experienced first-hand in helping refugees and others to get out of the country to Canada. I asked her about a comment I've heard from different people: that there's a risk that if we bring in people from Afghanistan too quickly, we might get some terrorists in Canada. Her response was:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7152586\" data-originallang=\"en\"> You could say that with every single refugee program we've ever instigated. The terrorists are running Afghanistan; they're not trying to come here. I think that is a very poor and weak and wrong conclusion to draw in the face of vulnerable people who need us to help them. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7152587\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to ask Mr. Khan and Mr. Faizi both to comment on this. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152588\" data-originallang=\"en\">Do you agree with her conclusion that when the government labels people coming out of Afghanistan as potential terrorists, they're politicizing and reiterating stereotypes that people might have of Muslim people, for example?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7152582\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, madame la pr\u00e9sidente.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152583\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie tous les t\u00e9moins de s'\u00eatre joints \u00e0 nous aujourd'hui. J'appr\u00e9cie leur pr\u00e9sence parmi nous. Je suis d\u00e9sol\u00e9 du d\u00e9but tardif, mais c'est un mode de vie par ici.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152584\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais commencer par les interpr\u00e8tes afghans.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152585\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai eu le plaisir de si\u00e9ger au Comit\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial sur l'Afghanistan tout \u00e0 l'heure. Sally Armstrong, journaliste canadienne, a comparu devant le Comit\u00e9 et a parl\u00e9 des horreurs qu'elle a v\u00e9cues en aidant des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et d'autres personnes \u00e0 quitter le pays pour venir au Canada. Je lui ai pos\u00e9 une question au sujet d'un commentaire que j'avais entendu de la bouche de diff\u00e9rentes personnes, c'est\u2011\u00e0\u2011dire qu'il existe un risque que, si nous faisons venir des gens d'Afghanistan trop rapidement, nous puissions nous retrouver avec des terroristes au Canada. Voici ce qu'elle a r\u00e9pondu:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7152586\" data-originallang=\"en\"> On pourrait en dire autant de tous les programmes de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s que nous avons mis en place. Les terroristes sont occup\u00e9s \u00e0 diriger l'Afghanistan; ils ne cherchent pas \u00e0 venir ici. C'est, \u00e0 mon avis, une conclusion erron\u00e9e, mal fond\u00e9e et tout \u00e0 fait inappropri\u00e9e au sujet de personnes vuln\u00e9rables qui ont besoin de notre aide. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7152587\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais demander \u00e0 M. Khan et \u00e0 M. Faizi de nous dire ce qu'ils en pensent. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7152588\" data-originallang=\"en\">Souscririez-vous \u00e0 sa conclusion selon laquelle, lorsque le gouvernement qualifie de terroristes potentiels les personnes qui quittent l'Afghanistan, il politise et r\u00e9p\u00e8te des st\u00e9r\u00e9otypes que les gens pourraient avoir \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des musulmans, par exemple?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/immigration/44-1/21/brad-redekopp-1/",
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"source_id": "11660851",
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