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{
"time": "2007-11-22 16:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mike Wallace (Burlington, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"802436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chairman. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"802437\" data-originallang=\"en\">And thank you for coming this afternoon in the ugly weather. I have a number of questions, and I'll start with the Conference Board. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"802438\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Darby, thank you for coming. You're listed here as deputy chief economist, and you spoke exclusively on tourism. We've had economists here over the last couple of days, including Mr. McCallum, who likes to call himself an economist\u2014he worked for a bank at one time. He said that the government can't change the value of the dollar, that it's not the government's ability to do so. He said that here today. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"802439\" data-originallang=\"en\">You focused on tourism. We've done some other things to try to make sure our business climate is competitive in terms of lowering corporate taxes and so on. Did you have any comment on the fiscal update we just had that the finance minister brought, other than on the tourism issue?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"802436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"802437\" data-originallang=\"en\">Et je remercie nos t\u00e9moins qui se sont rendus jusqu'ici cet apr\u00e8s-midi malgr\u00e9 la mauvaise temp\u00e9rature. J'ai quelques questions et je vais commencer par le Conference Board. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"802438\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Darby, merci d'\u00eatre des n\u00f4tres. On indique sur notre liste de t\u00e9moins que vous \u00eates \u00e9conomiste en chef adjoint et vous n'avez parl\u00e9 que de tourisme. Voil\u00e0 quelques jours d\u00e9j\u00e0 que nous recevons ici des \u00e9conomistes, y compris M. McCallum, qui aime s'attribuer ce titre \u2014 il a d\u00e9j\u00e0 travaill\u00e9 dans une banque. Il nous a dit que le gouvernement n'avait pas la capacit\u00e9 de changer la valeur du dollar, que ce n'\u00e9tait pas son r\u00f4le. C'est ce qu'il nous a affirm\u00e9 ici m\u00eame aujourd'hui. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"802439\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous avez trait\u00e9 principalement de tourisme. Nous avons pris d'autres mesures, dont la r\u00e9duction des imp\u00f4ts des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, pour essayer de faire en sorte que notre climat commercial soit concurrentiel. Avez-vous des observations \u00e0 formuler, autrement que par rapport \u00e0 l'industrie touristique, quant \u00e0 la r\u00e9cente mise \u00e0 jour \u00e9conomique de notre ministre des Finances? </p>"
},
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"source_id": "2216840",
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