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{
    "time": "2022-02-17 15:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6953370\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, 23 Liberal MPs' requests to help Afghan refugees were ignored. Liberal ministers were briefed months before Kabul fell. These warnings were ignored. My letters to the <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">Prime Minister</a> and the minister continue to be ignored. Afghan refugees write to the government every day pleading for help. They continue to be ignored. The Afghan crisis is another pattern of inaction and failure in leadership by the Liberal government.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6953371\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why was an election plan and abandoning those that served Canada more important than the pleas of Afghan refugees? </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6953370\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les demandes de 23 d\u00e9put\u00e9s lib\u00e9raux qui souhaitaient aider des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s afghans sont rest\u00e9es sans r\u00e9ponse. Les ministres lib\u00e9raux avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9s plusieurs mois avant la chute de Kaboul, mais ces mises en garde n'ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 prises en compte. Je n'ai encore obtenu aucune r\u00e9ponse aux lettres que j'ai adress\u00e9es au <a data-HoCid=\"214296\" href=\"/politicians/justin-trudeau/\" title=\"Justin Trudeau\">premier ministre</a> et au ministre. Chaque jour, des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s afghans \u00e9crivent au gouvernement pour le supplier de les aider, mais sans r\u00e9sultat. La crise afghane illustre une fois de plus l'inaction et le manque de leadership du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6953371\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi a-t-il choisi d'accorder plus d'importance \u00e0 son plan \u00e9lectoral et d'abandonner les personnes qui avaient servi le Canada au lieu d'\u00e9couter les appels \u00e0 l'aide des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s afghans? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2022/2/17/jasraj-singh-hallan-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jasraj-singh-hallan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4563/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11532324",
    "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/2022/2/17/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F2%2F17%2F"
    }
}