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{
"time": "2015-02-26 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Brad Butt (Mississauga\u2014Streetsville, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Brad Butt (Mississauga\u2014Streetsville, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3998488\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you both, gentlemen, for being here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998489\" data-originallang=\"en\">I had the opportunity a couple of years ago to serve on the special committee that the House of Commons established to look into cooperatives in Canada. One of the main themes that came out in the testimony was that a lot of people, including a lot of government agencies and departments, didn't understand how cooperatives worked and what cooperatives were. I'm wondering if there is the same problem with social enterprise and social finance. I'm wondering if you have any suggestions of what we can be doing at the federal level to create a much higher awareness of what social finance is and what these social purpose enterprises do exactly, so that we can make sure that agencies like the Business Development Bank of Canada and perhaps some other departments and agencies can better understand this model and would be more receptive to finding ways to work with and support social finance in the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Vermette, perhaps you'd like to start and then I'd be interested in hearing Mr. LePage's thoughts on that.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3998488\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vous remercie tous les deux de votre pr\u00e9sence, messieurs. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998489\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a quelques ann\u00e9es, j'ai eu l'occasion de si\u00e9ger au comit\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial que la Chambre des communes a mis sur pied pour \u00e9tudier les coop\u00e9ratives au Canada. Parmi les principaux points soulign\u00e9s par les t\u00e9moins, notons le fait que bien des gens, ainsi que de nombreux minist\u00e8res et organismes gouvernementaux, ne comprennent ni la nature ni le fonctionnement des coop\u00e9ratives. Je me demande si le m\u00eame probl\u00e8me se pose \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard de l'entreprise \u00e0 vocation sociale et de la finance sociale. Je me demande si vous avez des suggestions quant \u00e0 ce que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral peut faire pour mieux sensibiliser les gens afin qu'ils sachent ce qu'est la finance sociale et ce que les entreprises \u00e0 vocation sociale font au juste, pour faire en sorte que les organismes comme la Banque de d\u00e9veloppement du Canada, voire d'autres minist\u00e8res et organismes, puissent mieux comprendre ce mod\u00e8le et \u00eatre davantage en mesure de trouver des fa\u00e7ons d'appuyer la finance sociale au pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Vous pourriez peut-\u00eatre commencer, monsieur Vermette, et j'aimerais ensuite entendre l'avis de M. LePage.</p>"
},
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}