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{
"time": "2017-06-13 10:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Michael Levitt (York-Centre, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4976551\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you to you all for joining us this morning.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976552\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question actually follows the last comments that you just made, sir.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976553\" data-originallang=\"en\">The government's priorities with regard to development goals have been quite clear, and I think we stated recently, there's a particular focus on women's economic empowerment and poverty reduction, a focus on women and girls and particularly economic growth, job creation, those sorts of things.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976554\" data-originallang=\"en\">As it relates to a kind of focus on women, we had witnesses last week and the issue came up of whether there is an appropriate, modest level for directing the DFI to prioritize those types of projects that would empower and enable women entrepreneurs or local women actors on the ground. There were concerns that too robust a direction creates an artificial barrier to the success of these things because it's the market element that obviously makes them succeed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976555\" data-originallang=\"en\">Is there, maybe in the case of the British example, a modest level, a small level of direction toward those sorts of priority areas? Again, are development goals working with the DFI? These things don't operate in a vacuum. What's your feeling on there being a modest level of direction toward such a priority? Is that going to hamper it? What do you think an appropriate level might be if you do agree with the notion? I just want to see if we can get some discussion around that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4976551\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci \u00e0 vous tous d'avoir bien voulu discuter avec nous ce matin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976552\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma question fait suite \u00e0 vos derniers commentaires, monsieur, en fait. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976553\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement a assez clairement expos\u00e9 ses priorit\u00e9s quant aux objectifs du d\u00e9veloppement, et je crois m\u00eame qu'il a r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9clar\u00e9, en s'attachant \u00e0 l'\u00e9mancipation \u00e9conomique des femmes et \u00e0 la r\u00e9duction de la pauvret\u00e9, qu'il mettait l'accent sur les femmes et les filles et aussi sur la croissance \u00e9conomique, la cr\u00e9ation d'emplois, des choses du m\u00eame genre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976554\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui a trait \u00e0 l'accent mis sur les femmes, nous avons re\u00e7u des t\u00e9moins, la semaine derni\u00e8re, et il a \u00e9t\u00e9 question de savoir s'il existait un m\u00e9canisme appropri\u00e9, \u00e0 un \u00e9chelon modeste, gr\u00e2ce auquel on pourrait demander \u00e0 une IFD de traiter en priorit\u00e9 des projets visant \u00e0 \u00e9manciper et habiliter les femmes entrepreneures, les femmes de la r\u00e9gion qui agissent sur le terrain. Selon certains, il faudrait craindre qu'une orientation trop stricte ne cr\u00e9e un obstacle artificiel \u00e0 la r\u00e9ussite de ce type de projet; de toute \u00e9vidence, c'est l'aspect li\u00e9 au march\u00e9 qui en assure la r\u00e9ussite. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4976555\" data-originallang=\"en\">Y a-t-il, peut-\u00eatre dans l'exemple britannique, une petite orientation concernant ce type de priorit\u00e9? Encore une fois, est-ce que les objectifs de d\u00e9veloppement conviennent aux IFD? Ces choses-l\u00e0 ne se passent pas en vase clos. Que pensez-vous de la possibilit\u00e9 qu'il y ait jusqu'\u00e0 un certain point un accent sur cette priorit\u00e9? Est-ce que cela pourrait constituer un obstacle? Si vous \u00eates d'accord avec cette id\u00e9e, \u00e0 quel niveau serait-il appropri\u00e9 que l'orientation soit donn\u00e9e? J'aimerais tout simplement qu'on discute de la question. </p>"
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