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{
"time": "2023-03-28 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Robert Rae",
"fr": "M. Robert Rae"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7683181\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think there is an ongoing debate in India itself about the question of nationalism, how that populist nationalism is expressed and what the treatment of various minorities in the country is. I don't equate that situation in the same way as I do some others.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7683182\" data-originallang=\"en\">Obviously, as you may know, I was asked by the Government of Canada 17 years ago to look at the Air India bombing. I became quite familiar with the challenges that gave rise to that tragic situation. I've always felt it's important for us to fully appreciate the fact that India has an elected government. It's a government that's elected and re-elected, and in which elections are challenged at the federal level in India, as well as in all the states.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7683183\" data-originallang=\"en\">It's a very different approach, if you like, than we would take in some other situations where the governments are not elected, not democratic and are highly repressive. One has to deal with these situations with a great deal of sensitivity and understanding.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7683181\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense qu'il y a en Inde un d\u00e9bat en cours au sujet de la question du nationalisme, de la fa\u00e7on dont ce nationalisme populiste s'exprime et du traitement r\u00e9serv\u00e9 aux diverses minorit\u00e9s au pays. Je n'assimile pas cette situation \u00e0 quelques autres dont je suis t\u00e9moin.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7683182\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c9videmment, comme vous le savez peut-\u00eatre, le gouvernement du Canada m'a demand\u00e9, il y a 17 ans, d'examiner l'attentat \u00e0 la bombe contre Air India. J'ai appris \u00e0 conna\u00eetre tr\u00e8s bien les d\u00e9fis qui ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 cette situation tragique. J'ai toujours senti qu'il \u00e9tait important pour nous de bien comprendre que l'Inde a un gouvernement \u00e9lu. C'est un gouvernement \u00e9lu et r\u00e9\u00e9lu, et les \u00e9lections sont contest\u00e9es \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle f\u00e9d\u00e9rale en Inde, ainsi que dans tous les \u00c9tats.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7683183\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est une approche tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente, si vous voulez, de celle que nous adopterions dans d'autres situations o\u00f9 les gouvernements ne sont pas \u00e9lus, ne sont pas d\u00e9mocratiques et sont tr\u00e8s r\u00e9pressifs. Il faut composer avec ces situations en faisant preuve de beaucoup de sensibilit\u00e9 et de compr\u00e9hension.</p>"
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"url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/56/robert-rae-8/",
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"source_id": "12120125",
"document_url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/44-1/56/",
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