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{
    "time": "2009-10-07 11:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bernard Verret",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1629283\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Yes, Japan is a major pork purchaser. It is our biggest pork purchaser after the United States, which is our main customer. Japan is the main customer at this time. The customer of the future is China. Yes, we are having difficulty exporting to China, because our plants were closed due to H1N1, the virus known as swine flu, but what we need is support campaigns to reopen those markets. This is in the works right now.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1629284\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Worldwide pork consumption is increasing and will continue to increase. We are currently facing a global crisis. Because of this crisis and H1N1, pork consumption has dropped recently, but we should see a recovery in a few years. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1629283\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le Japon est un important acheteur de porc. C'est le plus important acheteur de porc, si on exclut les \u00c9tats-Unis qui constituent notre principal client. Le Japon est le principal client, actuellement. Le client du futur sera la Chine. Oui, on a du mal \u00e0 exporter en Chine parce que nos usines ont \u00e9t\u00e9 ferm\u00e9es \u00e0 cause du virus H1N1, ou virus de la grippe porcine, mais il faut justement avoir des campagnes de soutien pour rouvrir ces march\u00e9s. On est en train de le faire. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1629284\" data-originallang=\"fr\">La consommation mondiale de la viande porcine continue et continuera \u00e0 augmenter. On vit actuellement une crise mondiale. \u00c0 cause de cette crise et du virus H1N1, la consommation de viande porcine conna\u00eet actuellement une diminution, mais cela se replacera dans quelques ann\u00e9es. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/40-2/48/bernard-verret-3/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2883037",
    "document_url": "/committees/finance/40-2/48/",
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}