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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": "2014-05-15 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Jason Kenney (Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism, CPC)",
"fr": "L'hon. Jason Kenney (ministre de l\u2019Emploi et du D\u00e9veloppement social et ministre du Multiculturalisme, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3728628\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we have been clear that we will further tighten the program to prevent abuse of it and also to prevent distortions of the Canadian labour market. There may be some aspects of the program which are distorting the Canadian labour market.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3728629\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we will not do is listen to the leader of the Liberal Party who lobbied for us to overturn a negative decision by a Canadian public servant because he wanted to bring in a foreign worker to one of his favourite restaurants. We certainly will not listen to the Liberals who last week voted to expand the moratorium to all low-skilled streams, but two days ago he asked us to lift the moratorium for Quebec. There is no consistency and no coherence in the Liberal Party.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3728628\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous avons dit tr\u00e8s clairement que nous allions resserrer les crit\u00e8res du programme afin de pr\u00e9venir son usage abusif et les distorsions au sein du march\u00e9 du travail canadien. Certains aspects du programme provoquent des distorsions au sein du march\u00e9 du travail canadien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3728629\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous n'allons certainement pas \u00e9couter le chef du Parti lib\u00e9ral, qui a exerc\u00e9 des pressions pour que nous infirmions une d\u00e9cision prise par un fonctionnaire canadien. Le chef du Parti lib\u00e9ral souhaitait faire entrer au pays un travailleur \u00e9tranger pour qu'il puisse travailler dans l'un de ses restaurants pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9s. Nous n'allons certainement pas \u00e9couter les lib\u00e9raux qui, la semaine derni\u00e8re, ont vot\u00e9 pour \u00e9tendre le moratoire \u00e0 tous les travailleurs peu qualifi\u00e9s, mais qui, il y a deux jours, nous ont demand\u00e9 de lever le moratoire s'appliquant au Qu\u00e9bec. Le Parti lib\u00e9ral est tout \u00e0 fait incoh\u00e9rent.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/5/15/jason-kenney-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jason-kenney/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1240/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8368013",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Employment",
"fr": "L'emploi"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/5/15/",
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}
}