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{
"time": "2007-06-15 11:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"712487\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the government is doing no such thing. It was the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney that began the historic process of redress with Japanese Canadians regarding second world war internment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"712488\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is this government and this <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">Prime Minister</a> who have continued it with the Chinese community, with official apologies in the House a year ago this week, where half the Liberal caucus did not even bother to show up. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"712489\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is this government that has continued negotiations in good faith with people in other communities whose ancestors were victims of either immigration restrictions or wartime internment measures.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"712487\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ce n'est pas ce que fait le gouvernement. C'est le gouvernement conservateur de Brian Mulroney qui a mis en branle le processus historique de redressement \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des Canadiens japonais intern\u00e9s pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"712488\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est notre gouvernement et notre <a data-HoCid=\"78738\" href=\"/politicians/stephen-harper/\" title=\"Stephen Harper\">premier ministre</a> qui ont donn\u00e9 suite \u00e0 ce processus en pr\u00e9sentant des excuses officielles \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 chinoise, il y a un an, alors que la moiti\u00e9 des d\u00e9put\u00e9s lib\u00e9raux n'ont m\u00eame pas pris la peine de se pr\u00e9senter \u00e0 la Chambre \u00e0 cette occasion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"712489\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est notre gouvernement qui a poursuivi de bonne foi les n\u00e9gociations avec des membres d'autres communaut\u00e9s dont les anc\u00eatres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 victimes soit de mesures visant \u00e0 restreindre leur immigration, soit de mesures d'internement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/6/15/jason-kenney-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jason-kenney/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1240/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2158136",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/6/15/",
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}