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{
"time": "2006-10-18 16:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Alexa McDonough (Halifax, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"226377\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226378\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Minister and Deputy Minister, for being here before the committee today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226379\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Minister, you've indicated that CIDA works in a partnership with defence officials in Afghanistan. Based on the information available, the attempts of my party to make a calculation of what the complexion of that really is led us to the conclusion that for every $9 being expended on defence in Afghanistan, there is a mere $1 being expended on international development, diplomacy, and peacekeeping. Could you indicate whether our calculations, based on the information available to us, are in fact accurate in that regard? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226380\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, in the House yesterday, in response to my colleague Dawn Black, the NDP defence critic, you asserted that the work in Kandahar was being conducted with the greatest transparency, and you referred to technical briefings done by officials in the department. I'm wondering if you can supply to this committee the documentation, the detailed papers, on the basis of which that transparent technical briefing has been provided. In other words, can you share that with us?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226381\" data-originallang=\"en\">Third, I'm sure you will be aware of growing concerns about the increasing militarization of aid. We understand that the previous government had begun to express the position at the OECD that they were in favour of changing the definition of what is considered to be official development assistance to include military expenditures. Could you indicate the position of your government on this issue in general? In particular, can you indicate to us how many PRT members are actually employed in Kandahar and, of those, how many are CIDA employees and how many are defence employees?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"226377\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226378\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais d'abord remercier la ministre et son sous-ministre qui sont venus t\u00e9moigner devant nous aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226379\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la ministre, vous nous avez dit que l'ACDI travaillait en partenariat avec les gens de la d\u00e9fense en Afghanistan. D'apr\u00e8s ce que nous savons, nous avons essay\u00e9 de calculer la configuration de la chose, ce qui nous a men\u00e9 \u00e0 conclure que pour chaque tranche de neuf dollars d\u00e9pens\u00e9s pour la d\u00e9fense en Afghanistan, un dollar seulement va au d\u00e9veloppement international, \u00e0 la diplomatie et au maintien de la paix. Pouvez-vous nous dire si nos calculs, que nous avons effectu\u00e9s \u00e0 partir des renseignements que nous avions, sont bien exacts?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226380\" data-originallang=\"en\">En second lieu, vous avez dit hier \u00e0 la Chambre, en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 une question de ma coll\u00e8gue Dawn Black, la porte-parole de notre parti en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9fense, que ce que nous faisions \u00e0 Kandahar \u00e9tait fait avec la plus grande transparence, et vous avez \u00e0 ce sujet parl\u00e9 des s\u00e9ances d'information technique offertes par les gens du minist\u00e8re. Je me demande si vous accepteriez de fournir au comit\u00e9 la documentation en question, les documents d\u00e9taill\u00e9s, \u00e0 partir desquels ces s\u00e9ances d'information technique transparentes, comme vous dites, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9par\u00e9es. En d'autres termes, pouvez-vous nous faire part de cela?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"226381\" data-originallang=\"en\">En troisi\u00e8me lieu, vous savez sans aucun doute que la militarisation de plus en plus grande de l'aide est un sujet d'inqui\u00e9tude de plus en plus marqu\u00e9. Nous savons que le gouvernement pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent avait commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 faire valoir, \u00e0 l'OCDE, qu'il \u00e9tait favorable \u00e0 une nouvelle d\u00e9finition de ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler l'aide publique au d\u00e9veloppement, une d\u00e9finition qui comprenne \u00e9galement les d\u00e9penses militaires. Pouvez-vous nous donner la position de votre gouvernement \u00e0 ce sujet? J'aimerais en particulier savoir combien de membres des EPR travaillent sur le terrain \u00e0 Kandahar et combien d'entre eux sont des employ\u00e9s de l'ACDI et combien sont des employ\u00e9s de la d\u00e9fense.</p>"
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