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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2026-05-26 14:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Steven MacKinnon (Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Steven MacKinnon (ministre des Transports et leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9355393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the minister has just gone through and, this Thursday, will again be going through extensive questioning. She will be defending results that have achieved incredible results in one year of government. We have reduced the number of temporary Canadians. We have reduced the number of asylum seekers. We have saved money for Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9355394\" data-originallang=\"en\">The real question is why Conservatives are against providing health care to some of the most vulnerable people on this earth, including claimants from Ukrainian war zones?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9355393\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la ministre vient de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 cette question et, ce jeudi, elle sera de nouveau soumise \u00e0 un interrogatoire pouss\u00e9. Elle d\u00e9fendra le bilan du gouvernement, qui a obtenu des r\u00e9sultats incroyables depuis son arriv\u00e9e au pouvoir il y a un an. Nous avons r\u00e9duit le nombre de Canadiens temporaires. Nous avons r\u00e9duit le nombre de demandeurs d'asile. Nous avons fait \u00e9conomiser de l'argent aux Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9355394\" data-originallang=\"en\">La vraie question est de savoir pourquoi les conservateurs s'opposent \u00e0 ce que l'on offre des soins de sant\u00e9 \u00e0 certaines des personnes les plus vuln\u00e9rables de la plan\u00e8te, y compris les demandeurs provenant des zones de guerre en Ukraine.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/5/26/steven-mackinnon-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/steven-mackinnon/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4422/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13520300",
"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/2026/5/26/",
"related": {
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}
}