“You're wasting my time. Just answer the question. When did the government last submit names? How many have been processed since the ceasefire?”
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A bill to make many changes to Canada's immigration and border control laws. During debate, Conservatives asked questions about specific cases and raised concerns about fraud, while the Liberal minister responded but often discussed unrelated topics like Canada Summer Jobs and praised a Liberal colleague.
“I'm filling time with nice words and avoiding the question.”
“I want the government to add more features to this program.”
“I want to repeat what I already said and avoid answering the question.”
“You are doing a bad job. I want exact numbers on backlogs for these programs to complain about.”
“I am going to continue talking and hope everyone forgets that I did not answer the question.”
“You didn't answer me. I asked for the numbers, not your talking points. Give me the numbers!”
“The minister can't answer a simple question. The Conservatives are right to call for her resignation. How long will processing take?”
“I have numbers to make me look good. I won't answer the actual question.”
“The government is ignoring a real problem. I want the minister to fix that problem.”
“My department is already doing that. I don't need to make any new promises.”
“Why won't you admit the real problem and do your job?”
“Terrorist convicted in the U.S. got Canadian citizenship in 2001. How did that happen?”
“I keep saying the same thing. If they're IRGC officials they're banned. The government already did that.”
“Why did the government take so long to try and revoke this guy's citizenship?”
“I'm filling time with numbers that don't really answer your question.”
“Why aren't you checking right away whether someone lied to get their citizenship? You're not taking this seriously.”
“There's a process for that. We might deport them eventually.”
“If someone lied to get citizenship, deport them now.”
“We are already deporting many people. I don't want to deport more people for this specific reason.”