Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2021-05-28 13:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Luc Th\u00e9riault (Montcalm, BQ)",
        "fr": "M. Luc Th\u00e9riault (Montcalm, BQ)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6779736\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779737\" data-originallang=\"fr\">First of all, I'd like to thank all the witnesses for their testimony. We are looking for seeking solutions and will have to make recommendations once we have completed our study. So I thank them for being here today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779738\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I will turn to you first, Professor Taillon. Your presentation was very clear and touched on a number of complex issues in a very short period of time, and you summarized them simply and clearly. Thank you for that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779739\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Some people have told us that the crisis would have been managed more efficiently if we had invoked the Emergencies Act or centralized our operations. Others felt that, on the contrary, decentralized management of operations was the only solution to managing what we didn't know. I understand that you fall into the latter camp.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779740\" data-originallang=\"fr\">If the government had persisted in using such an act or centralized management, we might have had to manage both an urgent health crisis\u2014we were told from the first wave that we were lagging two weeks behind the spreading virus\u2014and a political crisis.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779741\" data-originallang=\"fr\">What do you think?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6779736\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci beaucoup, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779737\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans un premier temps, je voudrais remercier l'ensemble des t\u00e9moins de leurs t\u00e9moignages. Nous cherchons des solutions et nous allons devoir faire des recommandations \u00e0 la fin de notre \u00e9tude. Je les remercie donc de s'\u00eatre d\u00e9plac\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779738\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vais d'abord m'adresser \u00e0 vous, professeur Taillon. Votre expos\u00e9 \u00e9tait d'une grande clart\u00e9 et a touch\u00e9 des questions complexes en tr\u00e8s peu de temps, et vous les avez r\u00e9sum\u00e9es de fa\u00e7on simple et claire. Je vous en remercie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779739\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Des gens nous ont dit que, si on avait eu recours \u00e0 la Loi sur les mesures d'urgence ou \u00e0 une centralisation des op\u00e9rations, la gestion de la crise aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 plus efficace. D'autres pensent que, au contraire, une gestion d\u00e9centralis\u00e9e des op\u00e9rations \u00e9tait la seule solution pour g\u00e9rer ce qu'on ne connaissait pas. Je crois comprendre que vous faites partie de ceux-ci. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779740\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Si le gouvernement avait persist\u00e9 \u00e0 recourir \u00e0 une telle loi ou \u00e0 une gestion centralis\u00e9e, on aurait pu devoir g\u00e9rer non seulement une crise sanitaire urgente \u2014 on disait, d\u00e8s la premi\u00e8re vague, que nous avions deux semaines de retard sur la propagation du virus \u2014, mais \u00e9galement une crise politique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6779741\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Qu'en pensez-vous?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/health/43-2/39/luc-theriault-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/luc-theriault/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4483/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11345366",
    "document_url": "/committees/health/43-2/39/",
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