Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2016-02-18 17:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Jennifer O'Connell (Pickering\u2014Uxbridge, Lib.)",
        "fr": "Mme Jennifer O'Connell (Pickering\u2014Uxbridge, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4209063\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4209064\" data-originallang=\"en\">My first question is for Mr. Louie. It's probably no surprise; I was on council for 10 years in my region, so this is what the witness has been looking for.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4209065\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the biggest reasons that I ran, in fact, was a frustration not necessarily with the funding but with how funding flows to municipalities. During my pre-budget consultations, I met with chairman Roger Anderson who I know is on the executive, so I'm sure you know him well. One of the biggest issues is how funding flows. Over the last couple of days we've heard from witnesses who talked about shovel-worthy projects. My frustration has been that I know from municipalities that we could have these more visionary projects ready, but it's the cost to get them ready for tender that usually makes them ineligible for the former funding model.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4209066\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could you speak to that? Does FCM have a position in terms of their preferred flow of this infrastructure money? What is it that municipalities would prefer to ensure that we can actually have shovel-ready projects that are the more visionary ones, such as transit and climate change-type infrastructure, ready to go?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4209063\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4209064\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma premi\u00e8re question s'adresse \u00e0 M. Louie. Vous ne serez probablement pas surpris, mais j'ai si\u00e9g\u00e9 \u00e0 un conseil pendant 10 ans dans ma r\u00e9gion, alors je comprends ce que cherche le t\u00e9moin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4209065\" data-originallang=\"en\">Une des principales raisons pour lesquelles je me suis pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e aux \u00e9lections, en fait, \u00e9tait ma frustration \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard, non du financement en tant que tel, mais bien de la fa\u00e7on dont il est accord\u00e9 aux municipalit\u00e9s. Pendant mes consultations pr\u00e9budg\u00e9taires, j'ai rencontr\u00e9 le pr\u00e9sident Roger Anderson qui est membre du conseil d'administration, alors je suis certaine que vous le connaissez bien. Un des plus gros probl\u00e8mes est la fa\u00e7on dont le financement est affect\u00e9 aux municipalit\u00e9s. Au cours des derniers jours, nous avons entendu les t\u00e9moignages de personnes qui ont parl\u00e9 de projets qui valaient la peine d'\u00eatre mis en chantier. Ma frustration r\u00e9side dans le fait que les municipalit\u00e9s m'ont dit que ces projets visionnaires pourraient \u00eatre pr\u00eats, mais c'est ce qu'il co\u00fbte de les pr\u00e9parer \u00e0 l'appel d'offres qui les rend habituellement inadmissibles dans le cadre de l'ancien mod\u00e8le de financement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4209066\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourriez-vous en parler? La FCM a-t-elle une opinion quant \u00e0 la fa\u00e7on dont le financement de l'infrastructure est accord\u00e9? Qu'est-ce que les municipalit\u00e9s voudraient que l'on fasse pour veiller \u00e0 ce que les projets pr\u00eats \u00e0 mettre en chantier soient ceux qui sont plus visionnaires, comme les projets d'infrastructure de transports en commun et de lutte contre les changements climatiques?</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/finance/42-1/6/jennifer-oconnell-1/",
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