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{
    "time": "2016-02-24 15:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Erin O'Toole (Durham, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4215576\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday the immigration minister told Canadians that less than half of the Syrian refugees are now in homes. In December, he told the House that we should look to the private sector for solutions for the Liberals' lack of planning to meet their election quotas. For Conservatives, these are people, not numbers or photo ops.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4215577\" data-originallang=\"en\">When will the minister come clean and admit that the Liberals did not have a plan in December and they do not have a plan now? How long will he continue to treat refugees as numbers rather than people?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4215576\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, le ministre de l'Immigration a inform\u00e9 les Canadiens que moins de la moiti\u00e9 des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s syriens avaient un logement. En d\u00e9cembre, il a indiqu\u00e9 \u00e0 la Chambre qu'il faudrait se tourner vers le secteur priv\u00e9 pour trouver des solutions, puisque les lib\u00e9raux avaient promis d'accueillir un certain nombre de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, mais sans planifier en cons\u00e9quence. Chez les conservateurs, nous voyons les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s comme des personnes plut\u00f4t que des num\u00e9ros ou des pr\u00e9textes \u00e0 des s\u00e9ances de photos.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4215577\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand le ministre admettra-t-il que les lib\u00e9raux n'avaient pas de plan en d\u00e9cembre et n'en ont toujours pas? Quand commencera-t-il \u00e0 traiter les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s comme des personnes plut\u00f4t que des num\u00e9ros?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2016/2/24/erin-otoole-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/erin-otoole/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4154/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8809978",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship",
        "fr": "L'immigration, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et la citoyennet\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2016/2/24/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2016%2F2%2F24%2F"
    }
}