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{
"time": "2014-09-29 15:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Nathan Cullen",
"fr": "M. Nathan Cullen"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3842496\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we take as a starting point\u2014and I know economists and two hands and all the rest\u2014this idea of the Canadian economy being well below potential, and in speaking about the choices for our federal government going into a budget cycle, where there is now room either to invest or, as Mr. Thomas and others have argued, there are choices of true investment versus politics\u2014which is always a difficult thing in balancing this\u2014there is the question of where the best investments are.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3842497\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Oberg, I want to turn to you for a moment. Do you consider the services and programs offered to our veterans as investments? Or are they sort of\u2014and here I don't want to use an improper term\u2014secondary considerations for a government dealing with other matters, other economic matters, like job creation and job growth? For your members, the folks you represent, with regard to the types of expenditures that you're asking for, now that we appear to be moving into surplus, are they investments in the Canadian economy and in Canada in general?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3842496\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si nous prenons comme point de d\u00e9part \u2014 et je le sais pour ce qui est des \u00e9conomistes, et tout le reste \u2014 l'id\u00e9e que l'\u00e9conomie canadienne fonctionne bien en de\u00e7\u00e0 de son potentiel, et pour ce qui est des choix de notre gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, qui entame un cycle budg\u00e9taire, o\u00f9 il est maintenant possible d'investir ou, comme M. Thomas et d'autres personnes l'ont dit, on a le choix de faire de vrais investissements plut\u00f4t que de faire de la politique \u2014 et il est toujours difficile de maintenir un \u00e9quilibre \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard \u2014, il faut d\u00e9terminer quels sont les meilleurs investissements \u00e0 faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3842497\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Oberg, je veux vous poser une question. Consid\u00e9rez-vous les services et les programmes offerts \u00e0 nos anciens combattants comme des investissements? Pensez-vous qu'ils sont plut\u00f4t en quelque sorte \u2014 et je ne veux pas utiliser un terme inappropri\u00e9 \u2014 des consid\u00e9rations secondaires pour un gouvernement qui s'occupe d'autres enjeux, d'autres questions \u00e9conomiques, comme la cr\u00e9ation d'emploi et la croissance de l'emploi? Pour vos membres, les gens que vous repr\u00e9sentez, en ce qui concerne le type de d\u00e9penses que vous demandez, maintenant que nous semblons nous diriger vers des surplus, s'agit-il d'investissements dans l'\u00e9conomie canadienne et dans le Canada en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral?</p>"
},
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