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{
"time": "2007-04-19 13:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"582195\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you all for your presentations. There was a lot of information there.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"582196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorne, to start with you, there seemed to be in your presentation\u2014and I guess I can understand it, coming from government\u2014a lot of concern over the cost to the government of these programs. That concerns me even more when I look at the information coming out of the federal-provincial meeting of ministers, in which they seem to emphasize \u201ccost neutral\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"582197\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Any producer sitting in this room knows the reality is that we have been under a cheap food policy\u2014a low raw material return policy, if I can put it that way. Farmers seem to be providing the cheap goods for others to gain income from it, and farmers can't bear the burden of those low returns. If governments are going to have policies that make money for everybody else in the system but not for the primary producer, then somebody has to come up with some kind of compensation for it. I wonder if you might have a comment on that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"582198\" data-originallang=\"en\"> As well, where do you stand on companion programs? Producers across Canada are basically saying they need national programming, but maybe it's time to bring back companion programs where, in certain regions, there are differences and companion programs may be necessary as well.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"582195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci de tous vos expos\u00e9s, qui contenaient beaucoup d'informations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"582196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorne, pour commencer avec vous, vous avez exprim\u00e9 dans votre expos\u00e9, me semble-t-il, des pr\u00e9occupations majeures quant au co\u00fbt de ces programmes pour le gouvernement \u2014 ce qui se comprend, vu que c'est votre parti. Aux vues de l'information issue de la r\u00e9union des ministres f\u00e9d\u00e9ral et provinciaux, o\u00f9 on mettait l'accent sur la neutralit\u00e9 des co\u00fbts, apparemment, c'est encore plus inqui\u00e9tant.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"582197\" data-originallang=\"en\">N'importe quel producteur assis ici aujourd'hui sait pertinemment que nous avons depuis longtemps une politique d'aliments bon march\u00e9 \u2014 une politique de faible rendement sur les mati\u00e8res brutes, en d'autres termes. Il semblerait que les agriculteurs fournissent des biens bon march\u00e9 qui assurent des revenus \u00e0 d'autres personnes; mais les agriculteurs ne peuvent assumer le fardeau de ces faibles rendements. Si le gouvernement s'ent\u00eate \u00e0 adopter des politiques qui enrichissent tous les maillons du syst\u00e8me sauf le producteur de base, il faut bien que quelqu'un con\u00e7oive une sorte de d\u00e9dommagement \u00e0 cela. Auriez-vous un commentaire \u00e0 ce sujet?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"582198\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais aussi savoir ce que vous pensez des programmes d'accompagnement. Partout au Canada, les producteurs disent essentiellement qu'ils ont besoin de programmes nationaux, mais peut-\u00eatre est-il temps de revenir \u00e0 des programmes d'accompagnement o\u00f9, dans certaines r\u00e9gions, il y a des diff\u00e9rences et peut-\u00eatre un besoin pour des programmes d'accompagnement en plus.</p>"
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