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{
"time": "2014-04-29 16:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "The Chair",
"fr": "Le pr\u00e9sident"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3705774\" data-originallang=\"en\">Okay.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705775\" data-originallang=\"en\">The second big topic I want to raise, following up on some of Mr. Van Kesteren's and others' questions, is competitiveness and productivity, and especially on Canadian companies being able to maximize the situation of a higher dollar versus a lower dollar. You just answered very well in terms of the challenges of a higher dollar, that's a good time to be maximizing that because of the lower input cost. But as you mentioned, if you're facing financing challenges, then it's a very hard time for a company to do that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705776\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would like you to comment, and your predecessor also commented, on the fact that Canadian companies in the last number of months, perhaps years, have been sitting, to use a pejorative term, on a fair amount of cash and not actually using it. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705777\" data-originallang=\"en\">Do you want to comment on that? Do you still see that as a problem for the Canadian economy, that companies are still being perhaps too prudent and not investing enough in their own enterprises and in the economy as a whole?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3705774\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'accord.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705775\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais \u00e9galement aborder la question de la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et de la productivit\u00e9, pour faire suite \u00e0 certaines questions pos\u00e9es par M. Van Kesteren et d'autres membres. J'aimerais particuli\u00e8rement savoir si les entreprises canadiennes sont capables de tirer le maximum de la situation quand la valeur du dollar est \u00e9lev\u00e9e plut\u00f4t que faible. Vous venez de r\u00e9pondre fort bien en ce qui concerne les d\u00e9fis que pose la force du dollar, en indiquant que c'est le moment propice pour profiter du fait que les co\u00fbts des intrants sont plus faibles. Mais comme vous l'avez soulign\u00e9, il est tr\u00e8s difficile de le faire pour une entreprise en difficult\u00e9s financi\u00e8res.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705776\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais que, comme l'a fait votre pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseur, vous parliez du fait que ces derniers mois ou peut-\u00eatre ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, les entreprises canadiennes sont rest\u00e9es assises, pour prendre un terme p\u00e9joratif, sur un joli pactole sans s'en servir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3705777\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voulez-vous formuler un commentaire \u00e0 ce sujet? Consid\u00e9rez-vous toujours qu'il soit probl\u00e9matique pour l'\u00e9conomie canadienne que les entreprises canadiennes soient peut-\u00eatre encore trop prudentes et n'investissent pas assez dans leurs propres activit\u00e9s et dans l'\u00e9conomie en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/41-2/30/the-chair-17/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/james-rajotte/",
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"source_id": "8324724",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/41-2/30/",
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