Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2019-03-18 19:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)",
        "fr": "Mme Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-Est, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5830262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to rise in the House to speak to this issue of vital importance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830263\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today I request that the House hold an emergency debate regarding the rise of white nationalism and far right extremism in Canada and across the globe. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830264\" data-originallang=\"en\">Two years ago, Canadians, and especially Muslims, were devastated by the news that an act of terror had been carried out at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City. Six innocent lives were stolen from us, and 19 other people were injured, when a gunman indiscriminately opened fire at worshippers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830265\" data-originallang=\"en\">For those impacted, the healing process has been a long, slow, painful journey. They were shaken to the core. Their city and their place of worship were places they believed to be safe, and they should have been able to believe that. We would learn that the motives behind this act of terror were hatred of Muslims and opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. We would find out that he was radicalized online by far right extremist messaging. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830266\" data-originallang=\"en\">On March 15, the healing journey for Quebec City's and Canada's Muslim communities faced a significant setback. A horrific act of terror was carried out in New Zealand. A far right white nationalist took the lives of 50 innocent people and injured 50 more. He, too, acted out of hatred and xenophobia targeted at Muslims. He, too, destroyed the sanctity of the places people come to worship. In this case, they were the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, in Christchurch. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830267\" data-originallang=\"en\">Since the Syrian refugee crisis, there has been a troubling increase in anti-immigrant xenophobic rhetoric, acts and policies, primarily targeting Muslims, by western nations. It has led to a significant growth in the popularity of far right and nationalist political parties and the implementation of anti-immigrant and anti-refugee policies.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830268\" data-originallang=\"en\">As you may recall, Mr. Speaker, you granted my request for an emergency debate on January 29, 2017, when the newly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, in one of his first acts in office, enacted a discriminatory Muslim travel ban. While the most recent events in New Zealand happened far from Canadian shores, we must recognize that Canada is not immune to this trend and the threat of white nationalism and far right extremism. We must recognize that these events are linked. The name of the perpetrator of the Quebec City mosque shooting was etched on the weaponry used by the New Zealand shooter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830269\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Elected officials in this country have a duty to stand up and speak out against hate. We cannot continue to allow and implicitly support rhetoric and individuals that foster this hatred in our communities, online and abroad.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830270\" data-originallang=\"en\">Should my request be granted, it would allow parliamentarians to address the situation before us. We must determine a way forward that deals with these troubling trends and events. We cannot sit idly by and allow our neighbours to no longer feel safe in our communities.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5830262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vous remercie de me donner l'occasion de prendre la parole \u00e0 la Chambre au sujet de cette question cruciale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830263\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, je demande \u00e0 la Chambre de tenir un d\u00e9bat d'urgence sur la mont\u00e9e du nationalisme blanc et de l'extr\u00e9misme de droite au Canada et partout dans le monde.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830264\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a deux ans, les Canadiens, particuli\u00e8rement les musulmans, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 atterr\u00e9s d'apprendre qu'un acte terroriste avait \u00e9t\u00e9 commis au Centre culturel islamique de Qu\u00e9bec. Un tireur a ouvert le feu au hasard sur les fid\u00e8les r\u00e9unis: il a tu\u00e9 six innocents et en a bless\u00e9 19 autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830265\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour les personnes touch\u00e9es, le cheminement vers la gu\u00e9rison est long, lent et p\u00e9nible. Elles ont \u00e9t\u00e9 fortement \u00e9branl\u00e9es. Elles croyaient que leur ville et leur lieu de culte \u00e9taient s\u00fbrs, et elles auraient d\u00fb pouvoir le croire. On apprendra que les motifs derri\u00e8re cet acte terroriste \u00e9taient la haine des musulmans et l'opposition \u00e0 l'immigration et au multiculturalisme. On apprendra ensuite que le tireur avait \u00e9t\u00e9 radicalis\u00e9 en ligne par des messages d'extr\u00eame droite.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830266\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le 15 mars dernier, le processus de gu\u00e9rison des communaut\u00e9s musulmanes de Qu\u00e9bec et du Canada a connu un recul dramatique. Un horrible acte de terrorisme a \u00e9t\u00e9 perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en Nouvelle-Z\u00e9lande. Un nationaliste blanc d'extr\u00eame droite a tu\u00e9 50 personnes innocentes et en a bless\u00e9 50 autres. Cet individu \u00e9tait lui aussi motiv\u00e9 par la haine et la x\u00e9nophobie dirig\u00e9es contre les musulmans. Il a lui aussi viol\u00e9 le caract\u00e8re sacr\u00e9 de lieux de pri\u00e8re. Dans ce cas, il s'agissait de la mosqu\u00e9e Al Noor et du Centre islamique Linwood, de Christchurch.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830267\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis la crise des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s syriens, on assiste en Occident \u00e0 une augmentation troublante des discours, des politiques et des actes x\u00e9nophobes et anti-immigrants, qui ciblent surtout les musulmans. Cette situation a entra\u00een\u00e9 une hausse consid\u00e9rable de la popularit\u00e9 des partis politiques nationalistes et d'extr\u00eame droite, ainsi que l'adoption de politiques anti-immigrants et anti-r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, vous vous souviendrez que, le 29 janvier 2017, vous avez accept\u00e9 ma demande de d\u00e9bat d'urgence lorsque Donald Trump, qui venait d'\u00eatre \u00e9lu pr\u00e9sident des \u00c9tats-Unis, a adopt\u00e9 une interdiction d'entr\u00e9e dans ce pays aux musulmans, une mesure discriminatoire et l'une des premi\u00e8res qu'il a prises apr\u00e8s son arriv\u00e9e en fonction. Bien que les \u00e9v\u00e9nements r\u00e9cents se soient produits en Nouvelle-Z\u00e9lande, un pays situ\u00e9 tr\u00e8s loin du Canada, il faut reconna\u00eetre que notre pays n'est pas \u00e0 l'abri de cette tendance ni de la menace que repr\u00e9sentent le nationalisme blanc et l'extr\u00e9misme de droite. Il faut aussi reconna\u00eetre que ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements sont li\u00e9s entre eux. Le nom de l'auteur de la fusillade de la mosqu\u00e9e de Qu\u00e9bec \u00e9tait inscrit sur les armes utilis\u00e9es par le tireur en Nouvelle-Z\u00e9lande.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830269\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Les repr\u00e9sentants \u00e9lus au Canada ont le devoir de d\u00e9noncer haut et fort la haine. Nous ne pouvons pas continuer \u00e0 permettre et \u00e0 appuyer implicitement les beaux discours et les personnes qui fomentent la haine dans nos collectivit\u00e9s, en ligne et \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830270\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si ma demande est accept\u00e9e, elle permettra aux parlementaires de se pencher sur la situation qui nous occupe. Nous devons trouver une solution qui rem\u00e9die \u00e0 ces tendances et ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements troublants. Nous ne pouvons pas rester les bras crois\u00e9s et laisser nos concitoyens se sentir en danger dans leurs collectivit\u00e9s.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2019/3/18/jenny-kwan-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jenny-kwan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4248/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10528294",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Request for Emergency Debate",
        "fr": "Demande de d\u00e9bat d'urgence"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Far Right Extremism",
        "fr": "L'extr\u00e9misme de droite"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2019/3/18/",
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