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{
    "time": "2021-04-29 16:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Sylvain Poisson (General Director, Hebdos Qu\u00e9bec)",
        "fr": "M. Sylvain Poisson (directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, Hebdos Qu\u00e9bec)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6693410\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you for inviting us.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6693411\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Established in 1932, Hebdos Qu\u00e9bec is a not-for-profit organization that brings together the vast majority of independent publishers of local and regional weekly newspapers around the province. Hebdos Qu\u00e9bec represents, defends and promotes the interests of the local and regional press, supporting its development and outreach, while coordinating efforts across the sector.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6693412\" data-originallang=\"fr\">These weeklies have come through changing times and crises. Their owners, true entrepreneurs, have transformed and reinvented their news media services over the decades, in an industry that is nearly 170 years old. These publishers are proud entrepreneurs, Mr. Chartier among them. He owns five weeklies, including the oldest weekly French newspaper in North America, Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6693410\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Nous vous remercions de l'invitation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6693411\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Fond\u00e9e en 1932, Hebdos Qu\u00e9bec est une association \u00e0 but non lucratif qui regroupe la tr\u00e8s large majorit\u00e9 des \u00e9diteurs-propri\u00e9taires ind\u00e9pendants d'hebdomadaires locaux et r\u00e9gionaux de la province. Hebdos Qu\u00e9bec a pour mission de repr\u00e9senter, d\u00e9fendre et promouvoir la presse locale et r\u00e9gionale, de soutenir son d\u00e9veloppement et son rayonnement, ainsi que de concerter ses actions.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6693412\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ces hebdos ont travers\u00e9 des \u00e9poques et des crises. Leurs propri\u00e9taires, de v\u00e9ritables entrepreneurs, ont transform\u00e9 et renouvel\u00e9 leurs m\u00e9dias d'information au fil des d\u00e9cennies, au sein de cette industrie vieille de pr\u00e8s de 170 ans. Ces \u00e9diteurs sont de fiers entrepreneurs. M. Chartier en fait d'ailleurs partie, \u00e9tant propri\u00e9taire de cinq hebdomadaires, dont le doyen de la presse francophone en Am\u00e9rique du Nord, <em>Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe</em>.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/43-2/38/sylvain-poisson-1/",
    "politician_url": null,
    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11274471",
    "document_url": "/committees/finance/43-2/38/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Ffinance%2F43-2%2F38%2F"
    }
}