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{
"time": "2014-10-20 17:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Murray Rankin",
"fr": "M. Murray Rankin"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3860634\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you to all the witnesses.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860635\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. McKenna of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, it won't be a surprise to you that as the member of Parliament for Victoria I'm going to start my questions with you. You properly point out that there are 933 tourism businesses in my riding, with 9,215 direct employees, and I'm going to say a lot more in the multiplier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860636\" data-originallang=\"en\">I first of all want to say congratulations to your organization on Mr. Goldstein's elevation, or at least transfer, to the job of CEO at the Canadian Tourism Commission. I think that's a real tribute to your organization and, of course, to his skills. He's been a witness here on many occasions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860637\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to start with the Connecting America program, which is very big in our part of the world because obviously so many of the tourists have traditionally come from the State of Washington and from Oregon and California. Yet the Canadian government has seen fit not to fund that and has let the provinces and other organizations, rather than the CTC, put money into it. Do you see any change on the horizon based on your advocacy here today?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3860634\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais remercier tous les t\u00e9moins.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860635\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur McKenna, de l'Association de l'industrie touristique du Canada, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que je suis d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Victoria, vous ne serez pas surpris que je vous pose mes premi\u00e8res questions. Vous avez soulign\u00e9, \u00e0 juste titre, qu'il y a 933 entreprises touristiques dans ma circonscription, ce qui repr\u00e9sente 9 215 emplois directs, et je pr\u00e9sume qu'il y a encore plus d'emplois connexes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860636\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout d'abord, j'aimerais f\u00e9liciter votre organisme pour la promotion, ou du moins le transfert, de M. Goldstein au poste de PDG de la Commission canadienne du tourisme. Je crois que c'est \u00e0 l'honneur de votre organisme et, \u00e9videmment, de ses comp\u00e9tences. Il a comparu devant notre comit\u00e9 \u00e0 de nombreuses reprises.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860637\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais d'abord parler de l'initiative Accueillir l'Am\u00e9rique, qui est tr\u00e8s importante dans notre partie du monde, car manifestement, un tr\u00e8s grand nombre de nos touristes viennent habituellement de l'\u00c9tat de Washington, de l'Oregon et de la Californie. Pourtant, le gouvernement canadien a jug\u00e9 qu'il n'\u00e9tait pas n\u00e9cessaire de financer cette initiative et a laiss\u00e9 les provinces et d'autres organismes, plut\u00f4t que la CCT, fournir le financement n\u00e9cessaire. Selon le contenu de votre t\u00e9moignage, y a-t-il des changements \u00e0 l'horizon?</p>"
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