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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-11-04 12:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Andrew Lawton",
"fr": "Andrew Lawton"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8964813\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I do not think we should allow external pressures to force something through that is imperfect.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8964814\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I want to thank my colleague for her question. I respect Quebeckers a lot for having these conversations about identity and nationality. Quebeckers understand their heritage and they have a clear definition of who they are.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8964815\" data-originallang=\"fr\">What bothers me about the Liberal government's approach is that the Liberals do not believe that there is such a thing as a Canadian identity. The Liberals think that Canada is a postnational country. That is dangerous. It devalues Canadian citizenship.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8964813\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je ne pense pas que nous devrions laisser des pressions externes forcer l'adoption de mesures imparfaites.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8964814\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je remercie d'ailleurs ma coll\u00e8gue de sa question. J'ai beaucoup de respect pour les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois qui ont ces conversations sur l'identit\u00e9 et la nationalit\u00e9. Les Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois comprennent leur h\u00e9ritage et ont une d\u00e9finition claire de qui ils sont.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8964815\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ce qui me d\u00e9range dans l'approche du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral, c'est qu'il ne croit pas qu'il existe une identit\u00e9 canadienne. Les lib\u00e9raux pensent que le Canada est un pays postnational. \u00c7a, c'est dangereux. Cela d\u00e9valorise la citoyennet\u00e9 canadienne.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/4/andrew-lawton-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-lawton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4738/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13221438",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Citizenship Act",
"fr": "La Loi sur la citoyennet\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/4/",
"related": {
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}
}