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{
"time": "2019-04-09 15:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Bill Blair (Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Bill Blair (ministre de la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 frontali\u00e8re et de la R\u00e9duction du crime organis\u00e9, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5855816\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, we remain committed to maintaining a well-functioning refugee system, and that is why we have made significant investments in budget 2019 to improve the efficiency of the IRB in holding these hearings and to bring in regulation to encourage people to use the appropriate ways of entry to immigrate to this country. We will continue to invest in that system.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5855817\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We have achieved a significant level of success in significantly reducing the number of people who have presented themselves irregularly at our borders while maintaining a robust and efficient system of refugee determination.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5855816\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous sommes toujours d\u00e9termin\u00e9s \u00e0 veiller \u00e0 ce que le syst\u00e8me de protection des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s fonctionne de mani\u00e8re efficace. C'est pourquoi nous avons pr\u00e9vu des sommes consid\u00e9rables dans le budget de 2019 pour am\u00e9liorer l'efficacit\u00e9 de la Commission de l'immigration et du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 en mati\u00e8re d'audiences et pour adopter des r\u00e8glements afin d'inciter les gens \u00e0 employer les moyens d'entr\u00e9e appropri\u00e9s pour immigrer au Canada. Nous allons continuer d'investir dans le syst\u00e8me. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5855817\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de fa\u00e7on appr\u00e9ciable le nombre d'arriv\u00e9es irr\u00e9guli\u00e8res \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re tout en maintenant la rigueur et l'efficacit\u00e9 du syst\u00e8me de d\u00e9termination du statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2019/4/9/bill-blair-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bill-blair/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4346/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10564851",
"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/2019/4/9/",
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}
}