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{
"time": "2016-11-17 12:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Erin Weir (Regina\u2014Lewvan, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Erin Weir (Regina\u2014Lewvan, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4659786\" data-originallang=\"en\">Shared Services is seeking additional funding through the supplementary estimates. Yesterday, our committee heard from Wayne Smith, who resigned as the chief statistician to protest that Shared Services was impinging on Statistics Canada's independence. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4659787\" data-originallang=\"en\">Notwithstanding some good words in the economic update about independence for Statistics Canada, Mr. Smith believes that the government has not done anything to remove the effective veto that Shared Services has over Statistics Canada's work. I'm wondering if you could tell us what communication Mr. Smith had with you and your secretariat before he resigned, and also what you're doing in funding Shared Services to try to resolve this problem and ensure an independent national statistics agency.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4659786\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les Services partag\u00e9s demandent des fonds additionnels dans le cadre du Budget suppl\u00e9mentaire des d\u00e9penses. Hier, notre comit\u00e9 a entendu Wayne Smith, qui a d\u00e9missionn\u00e9 en tant que statisticien en chef pour protester contre le fait que les Services partag\u00e9s empi\u00e9taient sur l'ind\u00e9pendance de Statistique Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4659787\" data-originallang=\"en\">Malgr\u00e9 quelques bonnes paroles dans la mise \u00e0 jour \u00e9conomique sur l'ind\u00e9pendance de Statistique Canada, M. Smith estime que le gouvernement n'a rien fait pour supprimer le droit de veto dont disposent, de fait, les Services partag\u00e9s sur le travail de Statistique Canada. Je me demande si vous pourriez nous dire quelle communication M. Smith a eu avec vous et votre secr\u00e9tariat avant sa d\u00e9mission, et aussi ce que vous faites en finan\u00e7ant les Services partag\u00e9s pour tenter de r\u00e9soudre ce probl\u00e8me et assurer l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance de l\u2019agence nationale de statistiques. </p>"
},
"url": "/committees/government-operations/42-1/59/erin-weir-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/erin-weir/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4364/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9239859",
"document_url": "/committees/government-operations/42-1/59/",
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}
}