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{
"time": "2026-02-25 14:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9184477\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, today the CBC reported what we all see every day: that the immigration minister's own Liberal colleagues cringe awkwardly as she fumbles her way through serious issues. I have had the misfortune of sitting across from her at immigration committee, where she cannot answer basic questions about bills that she has presented to Parliament. While her infamous salad quote was admittedly crazy, the immigration portfolio is no laughing matter.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9184478\" data-originallang=\"en\">Under a Conservative government, Canada's immigration system functioned well. It was fair and orderly, but it is not with the current minister. Why does she still have her job?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9184477\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, aujourd'hui, CBC a rapport\u00e9 ce que nous constatons tous, tous les jours, \u00e0 savoir que m\u00eame les propres coll\u00e8gues lib\u00e9raux de la ministre de l'Immigration sont visiblement mal \u00e0 l'aise \u00e0 l'entendre cafouiller sur des questions graves. J'ai eu la mauvaise fortune d'\u00eatre assise en face d'elle au comit\u00e9 de l'immigration, o\u00f9 elle se montre incapable de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 des questions \u00e9l\u00e9mentaires sur les projets de loi qu'elle a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s au Parlement. Si sa fameuse r\u00e9partie concernant la salade \u00e9tait farfelue, on en conviendra, le portefeuille de l'immigration, lui, ne se pr\u00eate pas \u00e0 la rigolade.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9184478\" data-originallang=\"en\">Sous le gouvernement conservateur, le syst\u00e8me d'immigration du Canada fonctionnait bien. Il \u00e9tait juste et m\u00e9thodique, mais ce n'est pas le cas avec la ministre actuelle. Pourquoi est-elle encore en fonction?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/2/25/michelle-rempel-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michelle-rempel/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4385/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13374503",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship",
"fr": "L'immigration, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et la citoyennet\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/2/25/",
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}
}