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{
"time": "2017-05-04 10:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Michael Levitt (York-Centre, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5259128\" data-originallang=\"en\">Good morning to you both. Thank you for joining us today at our committee. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5259129\" data-originallang=\"en\">Maybe I'll start with you, Mr. Black. I had the opportunity as chair of the subcommittee on international human rights to travel with the members of our subcommittee to Washington just about three weeks ago. We engaged in a number of discussions. We met with about 14 different members of Congress, and a number of senators too, during that time. We had interesting discussions on mutual areas of agreement on human rights issues. We discussed South Sudan, Venezuela, Russia, the Rohingya in Myanmar?, Iran, and a number of other common ground areas. What became fairly clear during those discussions was that there's still a bit of a vacuum created at the administration level in terms of future directions on some of those files. Now, some of the big ones we've spoken about here already today\u2014Iran and Russia\u2014but on many of the others, partially probably due to the lack of appointments in some of those areas, or vacancies still to be filled, there just seems to be a bit of a disconnect in terms of where they stand in the administration. We've heard broadly about the slashing of international aid budgets, which is something that could happen within the next couple of years, if not immediately. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5259130\" data-originallang=\"en\">How do you see this playing out? How do you see even within the Republican Party the push-back that may come on a number of files, specifically dealing with international human rights? How is he going to be able to manage Congress and the Senate moving forward on some of these international global affairs?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5259128\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bonjour \u00e0 vous deux. Merci de vous \u00eatre joints \u00e0 nous aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5259129\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais peut-\u00eatre commencer par vous, monsieur Black. En tant que pr\u00e9sident du Sous-comit\u00e9 des droits internationaux de la personne, j'ai eu l'occasion de voyager avec les membres du sous-comit\u00e9, \u00e0 Washington, il y a environ trois semaines. Nous avons particip\u00e9 \u00e0 un certain nombre de discussions. Nous avons rencontr\u00e9 environ 14 membres du Congr\u00e8s et un certain nombre de s\u00e9nateurs. Nous avons eu des discussions int\u00e9ressantes sur des sujets d'int\u00e9r\u00eat mutuel touchant les droits de la personne. Nous avons discut\u00e9 du Soudan du Sud, du Venezuela, de la Russie, des Rohingya, au Myanmar, de l'Iran et d'un certain nombre d'autres sujets d'int\u00e9r\u00eat mutuel. Il est ressorti clairement de ces discussions que l'administration ne s'est pas encore positionn\u00e9e quant \u00e0 la direction qu'elle prendra sur plusieurs de ces dossiers. Nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 parl\u00e9 ici aujourd'hui de certains des principaux \u2014 ceux de l'Iran et de la Russie \u2014 mais pour bien d'autres, sans doute en partie parce que des nominations restent \u00e0 faire dans plusieurs de ces domaines ou parce qu'il y a des postes vacants \u00e0 remplir, la position de l'administration n'est pas claire. Nous avons entendu parler d'une r\u00e9duction du budget de l'aide internationale, qui pourrait avoir lieu au cours des deux prochaines ann\u00e9es, sinon imm\u00e9diatement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5259130\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment voyez-vous la partie se jouer? Envisagez-vous, m\u00eame au sein du Parti r\u00e9publicain, une r\u00e9sistance sur un certain nombre de dossiers, surtout en ce qui concerne les droits internationaux de la personne? Comment le pr\u00e9sident va-t-il pouvoir g\u00e9rer le Congr\u00e8s et le S\u00e9nat \u00e0 propos de ces affaires internationales?</p>"
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