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{
"time": "2020-12-03 18:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Thomas Saras",
"fr": "M. Thomas Saras"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6436892\" data-originallang=\"en\">In the last few years, we tried to reach the government in order to solve this problem. The foreign companies receive about $170 million in advertisements from the Government of Canada and they don't pay a penny in tax. We are working day and night trying to survive without any advertisements from the Government of Canada, sometimes from the provincial government or even the local governments, and we try to survive the way we can.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6436893\" data-originallang=\"en\">The problem is that.... We employ Canadians; we are giving money to Canadians. At the same time, a member of the ethnic press is an unpaid civil servant. He is offering the ability to new Canadians to learn about the culture and the politics of the new country and to help them integrate into mainstream Canadian society. Unfortunately, we have been cut off from any help anywhere.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6436892\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au cours des derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, nous avons tent\u00e9 de communiquer avec le gouvernement pour r\u00e9gler ce probl\u00e8me. En effet, les entreprises \u00e9trang\u00e8res g\u00e9n\u00e8rent environ 170 millions de dollars en recettes publicitaires gr\u00e2ce au gouvernement du Canada et elles ne paient aucun imp\u00f4t. Nous travaillons jour et nuit pour survivre sans profiter de ces recettes publicitaires fournies par le gouvernement du Canada, et parfois sans recettes publicitaires du gouvernement provincial ou m\u00eame des gouvernements locaux. Nous tentons donc de survivre avec les moyens du bord.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6436893\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le probl\u00e8me, c'est que... Nous employons des Canadiens; nous donnons de l'argent aux Canadiens. En m\u00eame temps, un membre de la presse ethnoculturelle est un fonctionnaire non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9. En effet, il offre aux nouveaux Canadiens la possibilit\u00e9 d'apprendre \u00e0 conna\u00eetre la culture et la politique de leur nouveau pays et de les aider \u00e0 s'int\u00e9grer dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne. Malheureusement, on nous a enlev\u00e9 tous les soutiens possibles.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/finance/43-2/9/thomas-saras-5/",
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"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11061993",
"document_url": "/committees/finance/43-2/9/",
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}