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{
    "time": "2017-06-20 14:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Michelle Rempel (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Michelle Rempel (Calgary Nose Hill, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4970339\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, today is World Refugee Day, and on behalf of the Conservative Party of Canada, I call upon the Liberals to immediately develop a fully costed, transparent, sustainable plan to provide integration support for refugees, and in doing so, to stop simply offloading costs for long-term refugee support to the provinces; to address the massive 45,000-case backlog of privately sponsored refugees; to establish a permanent standing subcommittee on internally displaced persecuted groups; to address the severe crisis in asylum claim processing times at the IRB; to stop turning a blind eye to the border crossing crisis in places such as Emerson, Manitoba; to pressure the United Nations to eliminate institutionalized discrimination against persecuted minorities within the refugee selection process; and to make the rainbow refugee assistance program, established under the former Conservative government, a regular, ongoing program.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4970340\" data-originallang=\"en\">On World Refugee Day, I affirm that the Conservative Party of Canada will continue to be a voice for the protection of human rights and the world's most vulnerable.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4970339\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en cette Journ\u00e9e mondiale des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, au nom du Parti conservateur du Canada, je demande aux lib\u00e9raux d'\u00e9laborer sans d\u00e9lai un plan transparent, viable et dont les co\u00fbts auront \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tablis pour fournir des services de soutien \u00e0 l'int\u00e9gration aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et, ce faisant, de cesser de simplement refiler aux provinces les co\u00fbts du soutien \u00e0 long terme des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s; de s'attaquer \u00e0 l'arri\u00e9r\u00e9 massif de cas \u2014 45 000 \u2014 de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s parrain\u00e9s par le secteur priv\u00e9; de mettre sur pied un sous-comit\u00e9 permanent charg\u00e9 de la question des groupes pers\u00e9cut\u00e9s d\u00e9plac\u00e9s \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur de leur propre pays; de r\u00e9gler la grave crise qui s\u00e9vit au chapitre des d\u00e9lais de traitement des demandes d'asile \u00e0 la Commission de l'immigration et du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9; de cesser de refuser de voir la crise \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re dans des endroits comme Emerson, au Manitoba; d'exercer des pressions sur les Nations unies pour qu'elles \u00e9liminent la discrimination institutionnalis\u00e9e contre les minorit\u00e9s pers\u00e9cut\u00e9es dans le processus de s\u00e9lection des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s; et de faire du programme d'aide aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s LGBT, mis sur pied par l'ancien gouvernement conservateur, un programme permanent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4970340\" data-originallang=\"en\">En cette Journ\u00e9e mondiale des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, je d\u00e9clare que le Parti conservateur du Canada va continuer de d\u00e9fendre la protection des droits de la personne et les plus vuln\u00e9rables de ce monde.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/6/20/michelle-rempel-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/michelle-rempel/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4385/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9632349",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements By Members",
        "fr": "D\u00e9clarations De D\u00e9put\u00e9s"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "World Refugee Day",
        "fr": "La Journ\u00e9e mondiale des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/6/20/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2017%2F6%2F20%2F"
    }
}