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{
"time": "2010-11-30 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. G\u00e9rald Cossette",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2236469\" data-originallang=\"en\">Information-sharing agreements are signed, most of the time, on very specific issues--the exchange of intelligence, for instance--as they relate to specific circumstances. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2236470\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we're talking about the general conversation diplomats may have, there is no specific arrangement we have with foreign countries about these things. This is diplomacy on a daily basis. That being said, as I was saying before, there is an expectation of confidence. We are being told things, because they know that this discussion will not become public. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2236471\" data-originallang=\"en\">As the requests come in, and we're asked to release that information, there is a requirement, a polite requirement, to ask the foreign government if they would be in agreement with releasing the information. Some of the information may be substantive enough that it should be protected. On some other issues they may be willing to release it publicly, the same way they would in their own country. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2236469\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans la plupart des cas, on conclut des ententes sur l\u2019\u00e9change de renseignements pour des questions tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cises \u2014 l'\u00e9change d\u2019information, par exemple \u2014, relativement \u00e0 des circonstances pr\u00e9cises.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2236470\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne les conversations g\u00e9n\u00e9rales des diplomates, nous ne prenons aucun arrangement particulier \u00e0 ce sujet avec d\u2019autres pays. C\u2019est une question de diplomatie au quotidien. Toutefois, comme je l'ai dit tout \u00e0 l'heure, on s\u2019attend \u00e0 ce que les conversations se d\u00e9roulent \u00e0 titre confidentiel. Si les gens nous racontent des choses, c\u2019est parce qu\u2019ils savent que la discussion ne sera pas rendue publique. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2236471\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand nous recevons des demandes en vue de diffuser des renseignements pr\u00e9cis, nous devons, par courtoisie, demander au gouvernement \u00e9tranger s'il accepte que nous communiquions l'information. Certains des renseignements pourraient \u00eatre jug\u00e9s suffisamment importants pour qu\u2019on les prot\u00e8ge. Pour d'autres questions, le gouvernement \u00e9tranger pourrait \u00eatre dispos\u00e9 \u00e0 rendre publics les renseignements, comme il le ferait dans son pays.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/ethics/40-3/35/gerald-cossette-53/",
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"source_id": "3603444",
"document_url": "/committees/ethics/40-3/35/",
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