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speech (committee meeting) resource
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{
"time": "2012-02-02 11:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jim Patrick",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2681680\" data-originallang=\"en\">We support the current approach, which is to apply the act to people who are professionals communicating with the government as part of their jobs. Imagine if everyone, paid or not, either as a private citizen, academic, union member, or a seniors group had to register as a lobbyist before they could call their MP to talk about changes to the tax code, copyright, collective bargaining, or whatever. To us, that's not lobbying. That's citizenship. The objective of the act was not to keep a complete record of all MPs' interactions with all their constituents who may approach them as individuals. It was to keep a record of professionals who communicate with the government to try to effect change as part of their jobs. We think that's the right approach. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2681680\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous appuyons l'approche actuelle, qui consiste \u00e0 appliquer la loi aux professionnels communiquant avec le gouvernement dans l'exercice de leurs fonctions. Imaginez si chacun, qu'il soit pay\u00e9 ou non, \u00e0 titre de citoyen, d'universitaire, de syndicaliste ou de repr\u00e9sentant d'un groupe d'a\u00een\u00e9s, devait s'enregistrer comme lobbyiste avant de pouvoir parler \u00e0 son d\u00e9put\u00e9 de changements \u00e0 apporter au code fiscal, au droit d'auteur, \u00e0 la n\u00e9gociation collective ou \u00e0 d'autres choses. Pour nous, ce n'est pas du lobbying, mais une action citoyenne. La loi n'avait pas pour objectif d'\u00e9tablir un rapport complet de tous les contacts des d\u00e9put\u00e9s avec leurs \u00e9lecteurs. Il s'agissait de consigner le nom des professionnels qui communiquent avec le gouvernement afin de faire apporter des changements dans le cadre de leurs fonctions. Nous pensons que c'est la bonne approche.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/ethics/41-1/20/jim-patrick-10/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "6474074",
"document_url": "/committees/ethics/41-1/20/",
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}