Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2012-11-19 16:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Brian Jean (Fort McMurray\u2014Athabasca, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3090721\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses who attend this day.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3090722\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. McAlpine, I'm interested. I was an international student. I went to Portland, Oregon, and did a science degree and I went to Australia and did a law degree as well as an MBA. I have to tell you what attracted me to Australia was the sun, not necessarily the great education. However, I didn't get to see much of it; I did spend a lot of time indoors in classrooms. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3090723\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'm curious. I know Australia has a huge program for international students. In fact, Bond University, where I attended at the time, back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, was 40% international students. On the makeup of that, about 35% to 36%, I would say, were probably students from Asia, because of course they're natural trading partners in Asia. There were a lot of Indians as well, because of the trade and also because of the proximity. They have three billion people on their doorstep who they do business with.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3090724\" data-originallang=\"en\"> For a single answer, don't you see that as more of a natural reason why Australia, with the same per capita, in essence, for land mass, has a lot more foreign students?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3090721\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, et merci aux t\u00e9moins qui sont parmi nous aujourd'hui. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3090722\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur McAlpine, \u00e7a m'int\u00e9resse. J'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 un \u00e9tudiant international. Je suis all\u00e9 \u00e0 Portland, dans l'Oregon, o\u00f9 j'ai obtenu un dipl\u00f4me en sciences, puis je suis all\u00e9 en Australie, o\u00f9 j'ai obtenu un dipl\u00f4me en droit et un M.B.A. Franchement, ce qui m'a attir\u00e9 en Australie, c'est le soleil, pas n\u00e9cessairement la qualit\u00e9 de l'\u00e9ducation. Cependant, je n'en ai pas profit\u00e9 beaucoup, parce que j'ai pass\u00e9 beaucoup de temps \u00e0 l'int\u00e9rieur, en classe. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3090723\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis curieux. Je sais que l'Australie offre un important programme pour les \u00e9tudiants internationaux. En fait, il y avait, \u00e0 la Bond University, quand j'y \u00e9tais, \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 1980 et au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1990, 40 p. 100 d'\u00e9tudiants internationaux. Du nombre, je dirais qu'environ 35 ou 36 p. 100 venaient probablement de l'Asie, parce que, bien s\u00fbr, l'Australie est un partenaire commercial naturel des pays de cette r\u00e9gion. Il y avait aussi beaucoup d'Indiens, en raison du commerce et aussi de la proximit\u00e9. L'Australie est entour\u00e9e de 3 milliards de personnes avec qui elle traite. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3090724\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si on s'en tient \u00e0 une seule explication, ne croyez-vous pas que c'est plus pour \u00e7a que l'Australie, qui affiche \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s la m\u00eame concentration d'habitants compte tenu de son territoire, attire beaucoup plus d'\u00e9tudiants \u00e9trangers?</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/finance/41-1/92/brian-jean-1/",
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    "source_id": "7782080",
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