{"time": "2020-11-17 10:20:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Michael Chong", "fr": "L'hon. Michael Chong"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6350306\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in short, the answer is yes, we believe legislation is needed: a new legislative framework to deal with a number of issues. For example, we believe that former senior politicians and former senior bureaucrats should register their contracts, if they are working for a foreign state or an entity controlled by a foreign state. We also believe that there need to be better enforcement tools available to law enforcement to counter these subversive Chinese foreign influence operations on Canadian soil.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6350307\" data-originallang=\"en\">Those are just two measures that we believe need new legislation in order to provide the tools necessary to counter these activities.</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6350306\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, pour r\u00e9pondre en quelques mots, oui, nous sommes d'avis que le Canada a besoin d'un nouveau cadre l\u00e9gislatif pour traiter diff\u00e9rents enjeux. \u00c0 titre d'exemple, selon nous, les anciens politiciens et anciens fonctionnaires de haut niveau devraient inscrire leurs contrats dans un registre lorsqu'ils travaillent pour un \u00c9tat \u00e9tranger ou une entit\u00e9 contr\u00f4l\u00e9e par un \u00c9tat \u00e9tranger. Par ailleurs, nous sommes d'avis que les forces de l'ordre devraient \u00eatre mieux outill\u00e9es pour contrer les activit\u00e9s subversives par lesquelles la Chine cherche \u00e0 exercer son influence en sol canadien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6350307\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce ne sont l\u00e0 que deux des changements qui n\u00e9cessiteraient un nouveau cadre l\u00e9gislatif et qui nous permettraient d'\u00eatre mieux outill\u00e9s pour contrer ces activit\u00e9s.</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2020/11/17/michael-chong-4/", "politician_url": "/politicians/michael-chong/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1440/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "11009131", "h1": {"en": "Government Orders", "fr": "Ordres \u00c9manant Du Gouvernement"}, "h2": {"en": "Business of Supply", "fr": "Travaux des subsides"}, "h3": {"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Foreign Policy Toward China", "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 La politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re envers la Chine"}, "document_url": "/debates/2020/11/17/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2F"}}