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{
"time": "2011-02-15 09:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Robert Carrier (Alfred-Pellan, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2352168\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Good morning, Mr. Page. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352169\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Good morning, gentlemen. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352170\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is quite refreshing to hear objective comments on our financial situation. I think comments like these are important for a democracy that wants to work well. But what I am hearing is that you are predicting a worrisome structural deficit and that there is little information or fiscal sustainability analysis of some of the government's decisions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352171\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> As my colleague said earlier, you described the political climate in one case. But you know from experience that, when we talk about the government, the decisions are inherently political. Regardless of the results of elections or the actual result of the measures taken by a political party in power, the government\u2019s job is to govern the country. Each budgetary or political measure that is established should include a long-term analysis, not only short-term, over a year for example.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352172\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Could you please tell me again about the importance of including this analysis in the projections? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2352168\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Bonjour, monsieur Page.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352169\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Bonjour, messieurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352170\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il est plut\u00f4t rafra\u00eechissant d'entendre des commentaires objectifs sur l'\u00e9tat de nos finances. Je pense que pour une d\u00e9mocratie qui veut bien fonctionner, de tels commentaires sont importants. Je retiens par contre que vous annoncez un d\u00e9ficit structurel inqui\u00e9tant et qu'il y a peu d'information ou d'analyses sur la viabilit\u00e9 budg\u00e9taire de certaines d\u00e9cisions prises par le gouvernement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352171\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Comme mon coll\u00e8gue le soulignait plus t\u00f4t, vous avez \u00e9voqu\u00e9 le climat politique, dans l'un des cas. Toutefois, vous savez par exp\u00e9rience que lorsqu'on parle d'un gouvernement, les d\u00e9cisions sont n\u00e9cessairement de nature politique. Quel que soit le r\u00e9sultat des \u00e9lections ou le r\u00e9sultat concret des mesures d'un parti politique qui forme le gouvernement, ce dernier a la responsabilit\u00e9 de gouverner le pays. Chaque mesure budg\u00e9taire ou politique qui est \u00e9tablie devrait donc comporter une analyse \u00e0 long terme et non pas seulement \u00e0 court terme, par exemple sur un an.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2352172\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je voudrais que vous me parliez de nouveau de l'importance d'inclure cette analyse dans les projections.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/40-3/58/robert-carrier-1/",
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"source_id": "3744370",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/40-3/58/",
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}