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{
"time": "2015-02-26 16:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mathieu Ravignat (Pontiac, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Mathieu Ravignat (Pontiac, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3998500\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998501\" data-originallang=\"en\">The first thing I'd like to do is congratulate both of you for promoting social enterprises in this country. We have a number of them in my riding and a number of them in the area, the Outaouais, and they do some pretty innovative stuff and some pretty impressive work. I think this is definitely part of the future fabric of social stability in the country, so I'm looking forward to it developing even greater wings.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998502\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to dig a little deeper with regard to procurement. I'm the Treasury Board critic for the official opposition, and I've been thinking about this question for a little bit. I would imagine that social enterprises face many challenges similar to those of small and medium-sized businesses. Am I right to say that most social enterprises are small and medium-sized businesses? The definition of a small and medium-sized business in the Government of Canada is part of the problem, no doubt, and the amount of diversity of corporations that actually get procurement contracts is also an issue.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998503\" data-originallang=\"en\"> What can we do specifically with procurement and procurement regulations at the Treasury Board level to ensure that social enterprises get a fairer whack at the proverbial bucket of federal cash?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3998500\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998501\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais d'abord vous f\u00e9liciter tous les deux de faire la promotion des entreprises \u00e0 vocation sociale au pays. Il y en a plusieurs dans ma circonscription et dans la r\u00e9gion de l'Outaouais qui sont tr\u00e8s novatrices et qui font un travail tr\u00e8s impressionnant. Je crois qu'elles feront certainement partie des solutions d'avenir pour assurer la stabilit\u00e9 sociale au pays, et j'ai donc h\u00e2te qu'elles prennent leur essor.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998502\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais en savoir un peu plus sur les march\u00e9s publics. En tant que porte-parole de l'opposition officielle en ce qui concerne le Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor, je me pose cette question depuis un certain temps. J'imagine que les entreprises sociales doivent relever bien des d\u00e9fis semblables \u00e0 ceux auxquels les petites et moyennes entreprises doivent faire face. Ai-je raison de dire que la plupart des entreprises \u00e0 vocation sociale sont de petites et moyennes entreprises? La d\u00e9finition que le gouvernement du Canada emploie pour d\u00e9signer les petites et moyennes entreprises fait sans doute partie du probl\u00e8me, tout comme le degr\u00e9 de diversit\u00e9 des entreprises qui ont acc\u00e8s aux march\u00e9s publics.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3998503\" data-originallang=\"en\">Qu'est-ce que le Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor peut faire exactement \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des march\u00e9s publics et des r\u00e8gles connexes afin que les entreprises \u00e0 vocation sociale b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d'un acc\u00e8s plus \u00e9quitable au financement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral?</p>"
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