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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2026-04-16 12:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Anthony Housefather (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience, Lib.)",
"fr": "Anthony Housefather (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire de la ministre de la Gestion des urgences et de la R\u00e9silience des communaut\u00e9s, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9261623\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague, especially for his personal story about what happened to him in 2015. As he said, nomination contests frequently, for certain parties in certain regions, choose the person who is almost certainly going to win the seat. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9261624\" data-originallang=\"en\">I understand what happened in these contests, and I understand the concern, as a result, about having permanent residents participate in the process, but it sounds like in the 2015 nomination there were people other than citizens and permanent residents falsely participating in the process. Can the member envisage a way where permanent residents can continue to participate and we can better protect the system from people who do not have that status? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9261623\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je tiens \u00e0 remercier mon coll\u00e8gue, en particulier pour son r\u00e9cit personnel sur ce qui lui est arriv\u00e9 en 2015. Comme il l'a dit, souvent, lors des courses \u00e0 l'investiture, pour certains partis dans certaines r\u00e9gions, on choisit la personne qui va presque certainement \u00eatre \u00e9lue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9261624\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je comprends ce qui s'est pass\u00e9 lors de ces courses et je comprends la pr\u00e9occupation, par cons\u00e9quent, \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de la participation des r\u00e9sidents permanents au processus, mais il semble que, lors de l'investiture de 2015, d'autres personnes qui n'\u00e9taient ni des citoyens ni des r\u00e9sidents permanents aient particip\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re irr\u00e9guli\u00e8re au processus. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 peut-il envisager un moyen de permettre aux r\u00e9sidents permanents de continuer \u00e0 participer et de mieux prot\u00e9ger le syst\u00e8me contre les personnes qui n'ont pas ce statut?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/4/16/anthony-housefather-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/anthony-housefather/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4438/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13445542",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Strong and Free Elections Act",
"fr": "Loi visant \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger nos \u00e9lections et nos droits"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/4/16/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F4%2F16%2F"
}
}