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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2019-03-18 19:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Jenny Kwan",
"fr": "Mme Jenny Kwan"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5830296\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for his comments, but he misses the point. The point I was raising was that the CRA was targeting refugee families who lack the language capacity to respond quickly enough for the CRA to address the issue. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830297\" data-originallang=\"en\">The issue was raised in the middle of the summer, when the children were out of school, and they were required to provide proof that their children were in school, for example. They had to go back and provide tenancy agreements, within a very tight timeline, when they had had to move multiple times, to prove that they actually lived here in Canada. No provisions were made to address these concerns. Even when their sponsorship families would say that they were prepared to verify that these families were here in Canada and that the children went to school here in Canada, and so on, it was not good enough.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830298\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That is the point, and that is what I am calling on the government to address to not target these individuals in that way. They are already\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5830296\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de sa r\u00e9ponse, mais il est \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la plaque. Je disais que l'Agence du revenu du Canada s'en prend \u00e0 des familles de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s qui n'ont pas les comp\u00e9tences linguistiques n\u00e9cessaires pour r\u00e9pondre assez rapidement \u00e0 l'Agence afin d'\u00e9viter qu'elle ne prenne des mesures contre elles. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830297\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans un cas, l'Agence a envoy\u00e9 ses demandes au beau milieu de l'\u00e9t\u00e9, c'est-\u00e0-dire quand les \u00e9coles sont ferm\u00e9es, et la famille en question a d\u00fb fournir la preuve que ses enfants \u00e9taient inscrits \u00e0 l'\u00e9cole. Pour prouver qu'ils vivent bel et au Canada, ces gens ont aussi d\u00fb fournir en tr\u00e8s peu de temps une copie de leurs baux, alors qu'ils avaient d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9 plusieurs fois. Rien n'a \u00e9t\u00e9 fait pour r\u00e9gler la situation. La famille qui les parrainait a m\u00eame offert d'attester qu'ils vivaient bien au Canada et que les enfants \u00e9taient inscrits \u00e0 une \u00e9cole canadienne, mais rien n'y fit. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5830298\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voil\u00e0 ce que je voulais d\u00e9noncer. J'aimerais maintenant que le gouvernement cesse de s'en prendre \u00e0 ces gens. Ils sont d\u00e9j\u00e0...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/3/18/jenny-kwan-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/jenny-kwan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4248/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10528377",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Revenue Agency",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2019/3/18/",
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}
}