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{
    "time": "2025-11-05 17:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Andrew Stark",
        "fr": "Andrew Stark"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9019247\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think what has to happen is that the Ethics Commissioner should be checking in regularly and reporting to Canadians\u2014not on the actual identity of assets, but to say that they've checked in and there were some issues there and they've been remedied, etc. If something serious did happen, then it's something the Ethics Commissioner should investigate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9019248\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think the legislation, if you want my opinion, should require involvement of the Ethics Commissioner beyond simply setting up the blind trust and then saying, \u201cThat's it. You guys go and manage it.\u201d</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9019247\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'apr\u00e8s moi, le commissaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique devrait effectuer des v\u00e9rifications r\u00e9guli\u00e8res et en faire rapport \u00e0 la population canadienne. Ces rapports ne porteraient pas sur la nature exacte des actifs; ils serviraient plut\u00f4t \u00e0 informer la population qu'une v\u00e9rification a \u00e9t\u00e9 effectu\u00e9e, que des probl\u00e8mes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 soulev\u00e9s et qu'ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9gl\u00e9s, etc. En cas de probl\u00e8me s\u00e9rieux, le commissaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique devrait mener une enqu\u00eate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9019248\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si vous voulez mon avis, je pense que la loi devrait conf\u00e9rer au commissaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9thique un plus grand r\u00f4le que la seule responsabilit\u00e9 de mettre en place une fiducie sans droit de regard, puis de d\u00e9clarer: \u00ab Voil\u00e0. \u00c0 vous de vous en occuper. \u00bb</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/ethics/45-1/14/andrew-stark-13/",
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    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13224361",
    "document_url": "/committees/ethics/45-1/14/",
    "related": {
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}