Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2023-04-24 18:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)",
        "fr": "Mme Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-Est, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7706584\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, this has come up numerous times. I was not actually going to get into conversations that I have had with the senator and conversations that I have even had with Conservative members.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7706585\" data-originallang=\"en\">The truth of the matter is this. When this bill came before us, the scope was narrow. I had already mentioned it to the senator that the scope is very narrow and that we need to actually look at broadening it to ensure that other lost Canadians are captured. Since that time I have been working at it, thinking about how we can do this, to make sure that families who have been impacted would not continue to be lost Canadians. We have been working diligently on this.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7706586\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was just reviewing evidence from the committee and the senator was saying that she could be supportive of expanding its scope although it is not before this committee right now because it is not part of that bill, so conceptually she is in support of supporting expansion of the bill in terms of its scope. However it is the Conservatives who continually want to say we cannot do this. If they really wanted to actually get on with it they could. Why do they not do what they say they want to do and support the expansion of the scope\u2014</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7706584\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, ce sujet a \u00e9t\u00e9 soulev\u00e9 \u00e0 maintes reprises. Je n'avais pas l'intention de parler des conversations que j'ai eues avec la s\u00e9natrice ni de celles que j'ai eues avec des d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7706585\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici de quoi il en retourne: lorsque nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 saisis du projet de loi, la port\u00e9e \u00e9tait \u00e9troite. J'avais d\u00e9j\u00e0 mentionn\u00e9 \u00e0 la s\u00e9natrice que la port\u00e9e \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s limit\u00e9e et qu'il faudrait l'\u00e9largir pour que d'autres Canadiens ayant perdu leur citoyennet\u00e9 soient vis\u00e9s. Depuis ce temps, je travaille sur ce dossier en r\u00e9fl\u00e9chissant \u00e0 des fa\u00e7ons d'y parvenir pour garantir que les familles touch\u00e9es obtiennent une solution. Nous y travaillons avec diligence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7706586\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je viens de passer en revue les t\u00e9moignages du comit\u00e9, et la s\u00e9natrice disait qu'elle pourrait appuyer l'\u00e9largissement de la port\u00e9e m\u00eame si ce volet n'est pas \u00e9tudi\u00e9 par le comit\u00e9 en ce moment parce qu'il ne se trouve pas dans le projet de loi. Par cons\u00e9quent, elle appuierait en principe l'\u00e9largissement de la port\u00e9e du projet de loi. Cependant, les conservateurs s'ent\u00eatent \u00e0 r\u00e9p\u00e9ter que nous ne pouvons pas le faire. S'ils voulaient faire avancer le dossier, ils pourraient le faire. Pourquoi ne font-ils pas ce qu'ils pr\u00e9tendent vouloir faire en soutenant l'\u00e9largissement de la port\u00e9e...</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2023/4/24/jenny-kwan-13/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jenny-kwan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4248/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12156581",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Committees of the House",
        "fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Citizenship and Immigration",
        "fr": "Citoyennet\u00e9 et immigration"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2023/4/24/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2023%2F4%2F24%2F"
    }
}