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{
"time": "2018-02-15 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Levitt (York Centre, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Michael Levitt (York-Centre, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5285452\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much, gentlemen, for being here and providing testimony.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5285453\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Chair, if I may, before I ask the witnesses some questions, I want to clarify for the record a point that the previous witnesses made regarding the consular services fee.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5285454\" data-originallang=\"en\">The consular services fees collected and the costs of the consular program are publicly disclosed in the departmental result reports, which are published publicly and annually. These tables\u2014and I can provide the analysts or the clerk the tables\u2014show that for the past four fiscal years consular services provided have consistently and substantially outstripped the fees collected. I'd ask the analysts to please note that point because, as I say, I know that it had come up previously.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5285452\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci beaucoup, messieurs, d'\u00eatre venus t\u00e9moigner devant nous.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5285453\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais apporter une pr\u00e9cision aux fins du compte rendu avant de poser mes questions \u00e0 nos t\u00e9moins d'aujourd'hui. C'est concernant les d\u00e9clarations de t\u00e9moins pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents au sujet des droits \u00e0 payer pour les services consulaires.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5285454\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les droits ainsi per\u00e7us sont rendus publics annuellement dans les rapports sur les r\u00e9sultats minist\u00e9riels, en m\u00eame temps que les co\u00fbts associ\u00e9s au programme consulaire. Je pourrai d'ailleurs fournir \u00e0 vos analystes ou \u00e0 votre greffi\u00e8re ces tableaux qui indiquent qu'au fil des quatre derniers exercices financiers, les co\u00fbts des services consulaires ont toujours nettement d\u00e9pass\u00e9 les droits per\u00e7us \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. Je demande \u00e0 nos analystes de bien vouloir en prendre bonne note, car cette pr\u00e9occupation a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 soulev\u00e9e.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/87/michael-levitt-1/",
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"source_id": "9982394",
"document_url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/42-1/87/",
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}