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{
"time": "2007-02-12 15:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"443531\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443532\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, Professor Toner. Good to see you again, Monsieur Desautels. <em>Toujours un plaisir</em>. I'd like to put a question to you, and I don't mean to put you on the spot because there are differing views here. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443533\" data-originallang=\"en\">Professor Toner, I think you were quite clear that it was time. To re-quote you, \u201cThe model has run up against its institutional limitations\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443534\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Desautels, you said you think the expectation gap might be overcome by a vigilant watchdog. You suggested there was no evidence to support that hiving off the position would strengthen the function, and yet there's no evidence to support that it wouldn't.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443535\" data-originallang=\"en\">You both are experienced practitioners. I guess the question I'd put to you both is a very direct one. I'm not asking you to mind read or to mind-meld or to cast too far out, but given the practice of the past...is it now 10 or 12 years, Professor Toner?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"443531\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443532\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur Toner. Il fait bon de vous revoir, monsieur Desautels. Toujours un plaisir. J'aimerais vous poser une question et je ne veux pas vous mettre dans l'embarras parce qu'il y a des points de vue diff\u00e9rents ici.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443533\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Toner, je pense que vous avez dit qu'il \u00e9tait clair que le temps \u00e9tait venu. Pour vous citer une nouvelle fois: \u00ab Le mod\u00e8le s'est heurt\u00e9 \u00e0 ses limites institutionnelles. \u00bb</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443534\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Desautels, vous avez dit que vous pensez que la question des attentes diff\u00e9rentes peut \u00eatre surmont\u00e9e par la fonction de surveillance. Vous avez laiss\u00e9 entendre qu'il n'y avait pas d'indications que le fait de s\u00e9parer le poste renforcerait la fonction et pourtant, il n'y a pas d'indications du contraire non plus. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443535\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous \u00eates tous les deux des praticiens d'exp\u00e9rience. Je suppose que la question que j'aimerais vous poser \u00e0 tous les deux est tr\u00e8s directe. Je ne vous demande pas de lire les esprits, de faire de la fusion des esprits ou de projeter trop loin en avant, mais \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 les pratiques du pass\u00e9...s'agit-il maintenant de dix ou de douze ans, monsieur Toner?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/environment/39-1/42/david-mcguinty-1/",
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"source_id": "1893173",
"document_url": "/committees/environment/39-1/42/",
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}