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{
    "time": "2007-05-17 11:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bernard Bigras",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"669618\" data-originallang=\"fr\">When you analyze the economic costs, the amount is about $8 billion, but when it comes benefits, the amount is about $6.4 billion in the area of health. You say that this represents only a fraction of the benefits that Canadians will enjoy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"669619\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to know why you account for all of the economic costs, whereas you only consider a fraction of the benefits. Might we conclude that the benefits, as a whole, would represent a higher amount than the economic costs? Have you broken down the benefits in a way that would allow you to determine if they represent only a fraction of the advantages?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"669618\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Lorsque vous parlez d'analyse des co\u00fbts \u00e9conomiques, le co\u00fbt est de l'ordre de 8 milliards de dollars, mais quand vous parlez de b\u00e9n\u00e9fices, ceux-ci sont de l'ordre de 6,4 milliards de dollars au titre des effets b\u00e9n\u00e9fiques sur la sant\u00e9. Vous nous dites que ce n'est qu'une fraction des avantages dont les Canadiens b\u00e9n\u00e9ficieront.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"669619\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> J'aimerais savoir pourquoi vous consid\u00e9rez l'ensemble des co\u00fbts \u00e9conomiques, alors que vous ne consid\u00e9rez qu'une fraction des b\u00e9n\u00e9fices. Peut-on en conclure que l'ensemble des b\u00e9n\u00e9fices est sup\u00e9rieur aux co\u00fbts \u00e9conomiques? Avez-vous fait une ventilation des b\u00e9n\u00e9fices pour pouvoir dire que les effets b\u00e9n\u00e9fiques ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction des avantages? </p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/environment/39-1/60/bernard-bigras-8/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bernard-bigras/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1513/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2094474",
    "document_url": "/committees/environment/39-1/60/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fenvironment%2F39-1%2F60%2F"
    }
}