Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2024-02-08 12:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Alexandre Boulerice",
        "fr": "M. Alexandre Boulerice"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8183759\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and I commend the organizations in her riding that work hard to integrate people who arrive there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8183760\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That is an excellent question. It is a very complex file. Sometimes there is a tendency to mix apples, oranges and bananas. There are different types of immigrants: economic immigrants, refugees, family members and students. There are also temporary foreign workers. We have not talked about them, but there is a large number of them in Quebec and they are very much needed in many sectors. Of course we think about agriculture, but this can also be in processing, slaughterhouses, and also the health sector. These people are sometimes stuck with closed permits and that creates a host of problems.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8183761\" data-originallang=\"fr\">There is no doubt that foreign students also make an economic contribution: They spend money here, they work here too. Sometimes, they stay here and share their talents with us. Wanting to reduce their numbers at any cost might hurt our universities. It is a significant source of revenue. If the universities need these foreign students, who pay a lot to come study here, it may be because they are chronically underfunded as a result of the cuts the federal government made for years.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8183762\" data-originallang=\"fr\">We need to invest in student housing and in our universities. Foreign students must not become scapegoats when they want to benefit from the expertise and knowledge our universities have to offer.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8183759\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie ma coll\u00e8gue et je dis bravo aux organismes de sa circonscription qui travaillent fort pour l'int\u00e9gration des gens qui y arrivent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8183760\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est une excellente question. C'est un dossier qui est complexe. Parfois, on a tendance \u00e0 m\u00e9langer les pommes, les oranges et les bananes. Il y a diff\u00e9rents types d'immigrants: les immigrants \u00e9conomiques, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, les membres de la famille et les \u00e9tudiants. Il y a aussi les travailleurs immigrants temporaires, dont on n'a pas parl\u00e9, mais qui sont tr\u00e8s nombreux sur le territoire qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois et qui sont n\u00e9cessaires pour plusieurs secteurs d'activit\u00e9. On pense d'abord \u00e0 l'agriculture, mais \u00e7a peut \u00eatre la transformation, les abattoirs, et aussi le secteur de la sant\u00e9. Ces gens sont parfois coinc\u00e9s avec des permis ferm\u00e9s, et \u00e7a cr\u00e9e un paquet de probl\u00e8mes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8183761\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il est s\u00fbr que les \u00e9tudiants \u00e9trangers apportent aussi une contribution \u00e9conomique: ils d\u00e9pensent chez nous, ils travaillent chez nous aussi. Des fois, ils restent chez nous et ce sont des talents qui viennent. Vouloir r\u00e9duire leur nombre \u00e0 tout prix, \u00e7a peut faire mal \u00e0 nos universit\u00e9s. C'est une source de revenus importante. Si les universit\u00e9s ont besoin de ces \u00e9tudiants \u00e9trangers, qui paient cher pour venir \u00e9tudier chez nous, c'est peut-\u00eatre parce qu'elles subissent un sous-financement chronique r\u00e9sultant des coupes que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral a faites pendant des ann\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8183762\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il faut investir dans le logement \u00e9tudiant et dans nos universit\u00e9s. Il ne faut pas que les \u00e9tudiants \u00e9trangers deviennent malheureusement des boucs \u00e9missaires alors qu'ils veulent profiter de l'expertise et des comp\u00e9tences des universit\u00e9s de chez nous.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/2/8/alexandre-boulerice-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/alexandre-boulerice/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4145/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12568225",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Federal Immigration Targets",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Les cibles f\u00e9d\u00e9rales d'immigration"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/2/8/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F2%2F8%2F"
    }
}