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{
"time": "2007-02-22 15:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Andrew Telegdi",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"449376\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will say only that when the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development became <a data-HoCid=\"105834\" href=\"/politicians/diane-finley/\" title=\"Diane Finley\">Minister of Citizenship and Immigration</a>, I gave her the reports from the committee. I made her an offer and said, \u201cLet us work together on a new Citizenship Act\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449377\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is only one problem and I think the member is going to take a while to realize it. I am hoping that when the hearings are over members will realize that we are dealing not with a few hundred cases, 450 cases, but with tens of thousands of cases. We cannot have any minister or politician stamping tens of thousands of the special permits to let the people in the 5(4) cases come in.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449378\" data-originallang=\"en\">I threw out the challenge. I said that the Citizenship Act is 60 years old and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is 25 years old, and all I am asking from the Conservative government is that it do what all its critics said when they were in opposition. I am going to hold them to it, because I took them at their word. I fought for it with my government. I am going to fight the Conservative government just as hard as I fought my government to make sure that it will happen. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449379\" data-originallang=\"en\">Had the election not occurred when it did and had we had a few more months, then some parts of the Citizenship Act would have been fixed, although not all of it. Had we had another year, I really believe that the recommendations of the committee would have been implemented and we would have a new Citizenship Act.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"449376\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je mentionne simplement que lorsque la ministre des Ressources humaines et du D\u00e9veloppement social est devenue <a data-HoCid=\"105834\" href=\"/politicians/diane-finley/\" title=\"Diane Finley\">ministre de la Citoyennet\u00e9 et de l'Immigration</a>, je lui ai remis les rapports du comit\u00e9. Je lui ai \u00e9galement propos\u00e9 de collaborer avec elle pour remanier la Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449377\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a uniquement un probl\u00e8me et je pense qu'il va falloir un petit moment au d\u00e9put\u00e9 avant de s'en rendre compte. J'ose esp\u00e9rer que, au terme des audiences, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s comprendront que nous ne sommes pas confront\u00e9s \u00e0 quelques centaines de cas, 450 par exemple, mais bien \u00e0 des dizaines de milliers de cas. Aucun ministre ou politicien ne peut approuver des dizaines de milliers de permis sp\u00e9ciaux pour permettre aux gens qui se trouvent dans une situation pr\u00e9vue au paragraphe 5(4) de la loi d'immigrer au Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449378\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai lanc\u00e9 le d\u00e9fi. J'ai dit que la Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9 datait de 60 ans et que la Charte des droits et libert\u00e9s avait 25 ans et que la seule chose que je demandais au gouvernement conservateur, c'\u00e9tait de faire ce que ses porte-parole ont clam\u00e9 qu'ils feraient lorsqu'ils \u00e9taient dans l'opposition. Je vais demander aux conservateurs de tenir parole parce que je les ai pris au mot. Je me suis battu avec mon gouvernement et je me battrai tout aussi fort avec le gouvernement conservateur pour \u00eatre certain que ce sera fait. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"449379\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si les \u00e9lections n'avaient pas eu lieu et si nous avions eu quelques mois de plus, au moins certaines parties de la Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9 auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 remani\u00e9es. Si nous avions dispos\u00e9 d'une ann\u00e9e de plus, je crois sinc\u00e8rement que les recommandations du comit\u00e9 auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 mises en oeuvre et que nous aurions aujourd'hui une nouvelle Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/2/22/andrew-telegdi-8/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/280/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1932028",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Citizenship and Immigration",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/2/22/",
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