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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2008-05-29 11:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Ed Komarnicki",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1125692\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, obviously there needs to be a decision maker to decide if a refugee is a true refugee, someone at risk of being tortured, at risk of losing his or her life, or at risk of receiving cruel and unusual treatment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1125693\" data-originallang=\"en\">When we took office there were nearly 100 vacancies. Our government has appointed over 100 individuals to adjudicator positions. Those individuals are required to go through a new process that our government established to ensure appropriate qualifications. Due diligence is used. Those going through the process must now pass an objective examination to ensure that they meet a certain level before they go on to other steps. Those people going to those positions must go through that process. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1125694\" data-originallang=\"en\">Notwithstanding that process, we have made over 100 appointments to various positions. We will continue to make appointments to ensure those positions are filled.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1125692\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il doit manifestement y avoir quelqu'un qui d\u00e9cide si une personne est vraiment un r\u00e9fugi\u00e9, c'est-\u00e0-dire si elle risque d'\u00eatre tortur\u00e9e, de subir un autre traitement cruel ou inhabituel ou encore de mourir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1125693\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque nous avons pris le pouvoir, il y avait 100 postes vacants. Notre gouvernement a nomm\u00e9 plus de 100 personnes \u00e0 des postes d'arbitre. Les candidats \u00e0 ces postes doivent se plier \u00e0 un nouveau processus de s\u00e9lection \u00e9tabli par notre gouvernement pour veiller \u00e0 ce qu'ils aient les comp\u00e9tences n\u00e9cessaires. C'est une pr\u00e9caution raisonnable. Ils commencent par subir un examen objectif pour montrer qu'ils ont atteint un certain niveau avant de passer aux \u00e9tapes suivantes. Donc, les candidats \u00e0 ces postes sont s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s selon ce processus.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1125694\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mais, malgr\u00e9 le nouveau processus, nous avons fait plus de 100 nominations \u00e0 divers postes. Nous allons continuer les nominations jusqu'\u00e0 ce que nous ayons pourvu tous les postes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/5/29/ed-komarnicki-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/ed-komarnicki/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1539/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2496444",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/5/29/",
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}
}