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speech (committee meeting) resource
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{
"time": "2026-06-16 16:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Shirley Carruthers (Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer, People and Corporate Management Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development)",
"fr": "Shirley Carruthers (sous-ministre adjointe et dirigeante principale des finances, Secteur des personnes et de la gestion minist\u00e9rielle, minist\u00e8re des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, du Commerce et du D\u00e9veloppement)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9455268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certainly.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9455269\" data-originallang=\"en\"> In terms of the development assistance that has gone to some of the countries you are alluding to, I can say that, in some cases, it has flowed through multilateral organizations. Countries such as India and China, for example, are eligible for development assistance under the ODAA Act, so\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9455268\" data-originallang=\"en\">Certainement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9455269\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne l'aide au d\u00e9veloppement qu'ont re\u00e7ue certains des pays que vous avez mentionn\u00e9s, je peux dire que, dans certains cas, cette aide a \u00e9t\u00e9 transmise par l'entremise d'organisations multilat\u00e9rales. Des pays comme l'Inde et la Chine, par exemple, sont admissibles \u00e0 l'aide au d\u00e9veloppement au titre de la Loi sur la responsabilit\u00e9 en mati\u00e8re d'aide au d\u00e9veloppement officielle, donc...</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/45-1/41/shirley-carruthers-1/",
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"source_id": "13585953",
"document_url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/45-1/41/",
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}