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{
"time": "2011-06-14 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. John McCallum (Markham\u2014Unionville, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2445959\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445960\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you to the witnesses for being here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445961\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would just like to say at the beginning that as a former defence minister, I am of course a huge fan of the men and women of the Canadian Forces.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445962\" data-originallang=\"en\"> My questions today are largely financial in nature.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445963\" data-originallang=\"en\">First, it's my understanding that the lapse in the defence budget was over $1 billion in 2009-10 and over $2 billion in 2010-11. I would like to ask the minister if I am correct in those numbers, broadly speaking.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2445959\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445960\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie les t\u00e9moins d'\u00eatre parmi nous.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445961\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pour commencer, j'aimerais simplement dire qu'\u00e0 titre d'ancien ministre de la D\u00e9fense, je suis naturellement un grand admirateur des hommes et des femmes en uniforme des Forces canadiennes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445962\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, j'aurai principalement des questions d'ordre financier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2445963\" data-originallang=\"en\">Tout d'abord, j'ai cru comprendre que le budget de la D\u00e9fense nationale comportait des ressources inutilis\u00e9es de plus d'un milliard de dollars au cours de l'exercice 2009-2010, et de plus de deux milliards de dollars pour l'exercice 2010-2011. Monsieur le ministre, j'aimerais savoir si ces chiffres sont exacts, \u00e0 premi\u00e8re vue.</p>"
},
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