Mr. Speaker, earlier this year the Prime Minister had a bit of an incident when he went to India. That trip did not go so well. It was supposed to be a visit where a bunch of photo ops would take place that ostensibly would have gained him votes in certain communities in Canada. He had very expensive costumes provided to him and very expensive photographers. He brought his own Indian chef to India. All of these things were supposed to do wonderful things for the Prime Minister's reputation, but it did not go so well. It was probably one of the worst foreign trips in Canadian history. It was ostensibly a disaster.
\nIt was one of those moments when everything crystallized. All of the Prime Minister's gaffes, spending scandals, errors, everything that Canadians were willing to forgive just kind of crystallized in a moment. Canadians knew he was not in it for them, but in it for himself. It was that moment.
\nI can imagine Gerald Butts sitting around asking how to change the channel. The Liberals looked south of our border for something concerning. They looked toward gun violence in the United States and decided to capitalize on that. They tabled a gun bill in Canada in an effort to make the situation in the United States the same as it is in Canada in an effort to change the channel politically. That is disgusting. Really.
\nWhen we think about the dialogue that is happening in the U.S. around public safety and for Justin Trudeau, the so-called defender of rights\u2014
", "fr": "Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, plus t\u00f4t cette ann\u00e9e, le premier ministre a eu une petite m\u00e9saventure lorsqu'il s'est rendu en Inde. Le voyage ne s'est pas tr\u00e8s bien pass\u00e9. Ce devait \u00eatre une visite remplie de s\u00e9ances de photos qui allaient manifestement lui faire gagner des votes dans certaines communaut\u00e9s au Canada. Il disposait de costumes somptueux et de photographes au cachet mirobolant. Il \u00e9tait accompagn\u00e9 de son propre chef indien en Inde. Toutes ces choses devaient avoir des effets extraordinaires sur la r\u00e9putation du premier ministre, mais tout ne s'est pas d\u00e9roul\u00e9 comme pr\u00e9vu. Ce fut probablement l'un des pires voyages \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger de l'histoire canadienne. Ce fut un v\u00e9ritable d\u00e9sastre.
\nCe fut l'un de ces moments de prise de conscience. L'ensemble des gaffes, des d\u00e9penses scandaleuses, des erreurs et de tout ce que les Canadiens \u00e9taient pr\u00eats \u00e0 pardonner au premier ministre s'est en quelque sorte cristallis\u00e9. Les Canadiens ont compris qu'il n'\u00e9tait pas l\u00e0 pour servir leur int\u00e9r\u00eat, mais le sien. C'\u00e9tait ce type de moment.
\nJe peux sans peine imaginer Gerald Butts qui cherchait une fa\u00e7on de d\u00e9tourner l'attention. Les lib\u00e9raux ont regard\u00e9 au sud de la fronti\u00e8re pour trouver quelque chose d'inqui\u00e9tant. Ils se sont tourn\u00e9s vers la violence commise avec des armes \u00e0 feu aux \u00c9tats-Unis et ils ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d'en tirer parti. Ils ont d\u00e9pos\u00e9 un projet de loi sur les armes \u00e0 feu au pays en tentant d'amalgamer la situation aux \u00c9tats-Unis et celle au Canada. Le tout visait \u00e0 changer la conversation politique. C'est vraiment d\u00e9go\u00fbtant.
\nLorsque nous songeons aux discussions sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale qui ont lieu aux \u00c9tats-Unis, le fait que Justin Trudeau, le soi-disant d\u00e9fenseur des droits...
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