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{
"time": "2025-11-06 14:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. David McGuinty (Minister of National Defence, Lib.)",
"fr": "L'hon. David McGuinty (ministre de la D\u00e9fense nationale, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8974392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the government recently announced a three-year extension of Operation Reassurance, Canada's largest overseas military mission, with over 2,000 CAF members stationed in Latvia.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8974393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Is the member seriously suggesting that Canada should not pass a budget that would allow us to give the strongest expression of our commitment to NATO as Canadians reinforce NATO's eastern flank by contributing to collective defence and co-operative security in the region? Canada is leading a 14-nation multinational brigade there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8974394\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would suggest that the members opposite join us and support our Canadian Armed Forces.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8974392\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le gouvernement a annonc\u00e9 derni\u00e8rement une prolongation de trois ans de l'op\u00e9ration Reassurance, la plus grande mission militaire du Canada \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger, dans le cadre de laquelle plus de 2 000 membres des Forces arm\u00e9es canadiennes sont stationn\u00e9s en Lettonie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8974393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 sugg\u00e8re-t-il s\u00e9rieusement que le Canada devrait choisir de ne pas adopter un budget qui lui permettrait d'exprimer le plus fermement possible son engagement envers l'OTAN alors que les Canadiens renforcent le flanc Est de l'OTAN en contribuant \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense collective et \u00e0 la coop\u00e9ration en mati\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 dans la r\u00e9gion? Le Canada dirige une brigade multinationale de 14 pays l\u00e0-bas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8974394\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'invite les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'en face \u00e0 se joindre \u00e0 nous pour soutenir les Forces arm\u00e9es canadiennes.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/11/6/david-mcguinty-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/david-mcguinty/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1405/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13228954",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Finance",
"fr": "Les finances"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/11/6/",
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}
}