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{
"time": "2007-02-12 15:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. David McGuinty",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"443537\" data-originallang=\"en\">Okay. I'm going to come to the practice over a decade, as well as all of the reports that have been issued that were from time to time critical of our government, critical of the new government, critical of the bureaucracy itself, and so on and so forth. I'm just trying to match the expectations gap in society particularly, Mr. Desautels. Most Canadians want to see their governments' feet held to the fire on this. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443538\" data-originallang=\"en\">The position has evolved; the role has evolved; we live in a very competitive communication world. Don't you think--and both of you can comment--that the independence of this kind of position with the strength and advocacy role would go some distance in holding any government's feet more immediately to the fire? Don't you think this would help Canadians understand more about what is actually going on and what is not going on? I'm trying to get anything that would suggest this is not a good idea; I can't find it in the testimony from either of you.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"443537\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tr\u00e8s bien. Je vais en venir \u00e0 la pratique au cours d'une d\u00e9cennie, ainsi qu'\u00e0 tous les rapports qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s qui \u00e9taient, de temps \u00e0 autre, critique \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de notre gouvernement, critique \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard du nouveau gouvernement, critique \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de la bureaucratie elle-m\u00eame, et ainsi de suite. J'essaie simplement de d\u00e9finir les attentes diff\u00e9rentes dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, en particulier, monsieur Desautels. La plupart des Canadiens veulent que leurs gouvernements soient talonn\u00e9s de tr\u00e8s pr\u00e8s sur cette question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"443538\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le poste a \u00e9volu\u00e9; le r\u00f4le a \u00e9volu\u00e9; nous vivons dans un monde des communications tr\u00e8s concurrentiels. Ne pensez-vous pas\u2014 et vous pouvez tous les deux faire des observations\u2014 que l'ind\u00e9pendance de ce type de fonction avec la force et le r\u00f4le de promoteur permettrait de talonner de beaucoup plus pr\u00e8s tout gouvernement? Ne pensez-vous pas que cela aiderait les Canadiens \u00e0 comprendre davantage ce qui se passe en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ou ne se passe pas? J'essaie de trouver n'importe quoi qui indiquerait que ce n'est pas une bonne id\u00e9e; je ne peux trouver cela dans ni l'un ni l'autre de vos t\u00e9moignages.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/environment/39-1/42/david-mcguinty-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/david-mcguinty/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1405/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1893180",
"document_url": "/committees/environment/39-1/42/",
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}