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{
"time": "2023-05-08 20:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7755822\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I know that former member very well. He is in a neighbouring riding to mine. In fact, I used to represent his riding in another configuration, before redistribution.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7755823\" data-originallang=\"en\">I know the riding and its makeup well. I saw a lot of the comments that were made in the last election about that former member, on various platforms, such as that he was a traitor to his own ethnicity.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7755824\" data-originallang=\"en\">Currently, there is a campaign in British Columbia and nationally to call the request for a foreign agent registry \u201cChinese exclusion 2.0\u201d. Nothing could be further from the truth. That is not what we are talking about in this request. However, these are the kinds of allegations that were thrown against the former member. He had a very hard time combatting them, because it was so pervasive that a lot of voters of Chinese ethnicity simply stayed home. They were too afraid to vote and certainly too afraid to vote for him.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7755822\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je connais tr\u00e8s bien cet ancien d\u00e9put\u00e9. Il vit dans une circonscription voisine de la mienne. En fait, je repr\u00e9sentais sa circonscription \u00e0 une certaine \u00e9poque, avant que la carte \u00e9lectorale soit modifi\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7755823\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je connais tr\u00e8s bien la circonscription et sa composition. Pendant la derni\u00e8re campagne \u00e9lectorale, j'ai vu beaucoup de commentaires \u00e0 propos de cet ancien d\u00e9put\u00e9 sur diverses plateformes; certains disaient, par exemple, qu'il trahissait ses origines ethniques.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7755824\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'apr\u00e8s une campagne qui se d\u00e9roule actuellement en Colombie\u2011Britannique et dans l'ensemble du pays, la demande portant sur la cr\u00e9ation d'un registre des agents \u00e9trangers serait un retour de l'exclusion des Chinois, version 2.0. C'est tout \u00e0 fait faux, puisque la demande porte sur tout autre chose. Cela donne toutefois une id\u00e9e du genre d'all\u00e9gations qui \u00e9taient lanc\u00e9es contre l'ancien d\u00e9put\u00e9. Il avait beaucoup de mal \u00e0 les combattre. Elles \u00e9taient si r\u00e9pandues que beaucoup d'\u00e9lecteurs d'origine chinoise sont tout simplement rest\u00e9s chez eux: ils avaient peur d'aller voter et ils avaient d\u00e9cid\u00e9ment peur de voter pour lui.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/5/8/kerry-lynne-findlay-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kerry-lynne-findlay/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4535/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12196061",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Privilege",
"fr": "Privil\u00e8ge"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Reference to Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs",
"fr": "Le renvoi au Comit\u00e9 permanent de la proc\u00e9dure et des affaires de la Chambre"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/5/8/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2023%2F5%2F8%2F"
}
}