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{
"time": "2008-02-25 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Jean-Yves Laforest (Saint-Maurice\u2014Champlain, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"941835\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you, Mr. Chairman.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"941836\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Good afternoon. My question is for Mr. Lee, but I would also like to hear Mr. Hodgson's opinion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"941837\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Lee, in your opening presentation, you said that your organization had chosen 2008 as the year to reduce poverty. Do you have any idea of the magnitude of the financial losses that the federal government is incurring because of tax havens? These amounts could be used to fight poverty, if we were to eliminate these tax havens. Do you have an idea of the amount of money at stake? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"941838\" data-originallang=\"fr\">To my mind, the fight against poverty and tax havens are totally contradictory. Tax havens serve those who have a lot of money. If we are to fight poverty, we should make attacking these types of situations a priority.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"941835\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"941836\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Bonjour. Ma question s'adresse \u00e0 M. Lee, mais j'aimerais que M. Hodgson donne aussi son opinion.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"941837\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur Lee, dans la pr\u00e9sentation des documents, vous avez dit que votre organisation faisait de l'ann\u00e9e 2008 l'ann\u00e9e de la r\u00e9duction de la pauvret\u00e9. Avez-vous une id\u00e9e de l'ampleur des pertes financi\u00e8res que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral essuie \u00e0 cause des paradis fiscaux? Ces montants pourraient \u00eatre vers\u00e9s \u00e0 la lutte contre la pauvret\u00e9, si on \u00e9liminait ces paradis fiscaux. Avez-vous une id\u00e9e des montants en jeu?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"941838\" data-originallang=\"fr\">\u00c0 mon avis, la lutte contre la pauvret\u00e9 et les paradis fiscaux sont deux choses \u00e0 l'oppos\u00e9 l'une de l'autre. Les paradis fiscaux servent les gens qui d\u00e9tiennent d\u00e9j\u00e0 beaucoup d'argent. Quand on lutte contre la pauvret\u00e9, on devrait s'attaquer prioritairement \u00e0 de telles situations.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/39-2/25/jean-yves-laforest-1/",
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"source_id": "2330077",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/39-2/25/",
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