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{
    "time": "2014-04-29 16:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Stephen S. Poloz",
        "fr": "M. Stephen S. Poloz"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3705778\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do spend a lot of time talking to the actual companies as opposed to relying on our models to explain this, and I find it to be very helpful to do that. What I pick up, as I was relating earlier, is the sense that companies and their boards have been through a lot in this period and so the bar for making a decision is higher than it has been in the past in terms of confidence in the outlook. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705779\" data-originallang=\"en\">When you're looking out there and you see the U.S. economy going through a pretty good summer and then a bad winter, is that just because of weather or is it coming back? Those bits of uncertainty really cause companies to hold back, and it's totally understandable. It's true that balance sheets are healthy. We think that's excellent because it's one of the important ingredients to the upturn that we're describing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705780\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we think is that all the pieces are coming together with a stronger U.S. economy, more export growth, and the strong balance sheets, and of course inexpensive financing if that's the route you need to go. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705781\" data-originallang=\"en\">All of those ingredients are ready. All we need is the extra degree of confidence that it's a sustainable growth upturn as opposed to another temporary one. I'm confident that's what we're seeing and so over the next year or two, we will see a big difference in that. But that's a forecast, it's not in the numbers yet. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3705778\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je passe beaucoup de temps \u00e0 parler aux entreprises comme telles au lieu de me fier \u00e0 nos mod\u00e8les pour expliquer ce qui se passe, et je trouve que c'est fort utile. J'en ai conclu, comme je le disais pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment, que les entreprises et leurs conseils d'administration en ont vu de toutes les couleurs au cours de cette p\u00e9riode; ils se montrent donc plus circonspects quand vient le temps de prendre une d\u00e9cision, compte tenu de la confiance que leur inspirent les perspectives.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705779\" data-originallang=\"en\">Quand l'\u00e9conomie am\u00e9ricaine passe un assez bon \u00e9t\u00e9, mais conna\u00eet ensuite un hiver difficile, est-ce \u00e0 cause de la temp\u00e9rature ou de la crise qui refait surface? Ces soubresauts d'incertitude incitent vraiment les entreprises \u00e0 la prudence, et c'est tout \u00e0 fait compr\u00e9hensible. Il est vrai que les bilans sont bons. Nous consid\u00e9rons que c'est excellent, parce que c'est un des ingr\u00e9dients importants de la reprise que nous d\u00e9crivons.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705780\" data-originallang=\"en\">Selon nous, tous les \u00e9l\u00e9ments sont en train de se mettre en place, car l'\u00e9conomie am\u00e9ricaine est plus forte, les exportations augmentent, les bilans sont positifs et, bien entendu, les co\u00fbts de financement sont faibles s'il est n\u00e9cessaire de recourir \u00e0 cette solution. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705781\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tous les ingr\u00e9dients sont pr\u00eats. Tout ce qu'il faut, c'est que les entreprises aient davantage confiance dans le fait qu'il s'agit d'une reprise durable et non d'un autre feu de paille. Je suis convaincu que c'est ce qui se passe et qu'on observera une diff\u00e9rence notable au cours des deux prochaines ann\u00e9es. Mais c'est une pr\u00e9vision, et cela ne para\u00eet pas encore dans les chiffres. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/41-2/30/stephen-s-poloz-36/",
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    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8324725",
    "document_url": "/committees/finance/41-2/30/",
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}