Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2007-05-30 17:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Yvon Godin (Acadie\u2014Bathurst, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"696032\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you, Mr. Chairman.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696033\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Welcome to you all. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696034\" data-originallang=\"en\">As you can see, I'm replacing Brian, but I'm not Brian. Brian had some questions, but he had to leave for a few minutes. I will raise some of the questions he's interested in.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696035\" data-originallang=\"en\">Going to the issue of passports, there's what we know today, but starting in January it's going to be another issue. How many people from the United States who come and visit us just go across the border with their car? Don't you think there will be a big effect? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696036\" data-originallang=\"en\">For example, Montreal is close, not even an hour away, to the border with the United States. If you look at New Brunswick, for example, there's the border with Maine, and they're going across day after day and they have no passport. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696037\" data-originallang=\"en\">We're dealing with the ones taking flights right now, and it's a mess. We've got people now waiting three months to get a passport. It's not easy. We don't have the offices across the country that we need to deal with the passport issue. Some places are worse. In northern Ontario, for example, in Sault Ste. Marie, if they want a passport they have to go to Toronto if they need one in an emergency. Just imagine that. Don't you think it's going to get worse?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"696032\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696033\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bienvenue \u00e0 vous tous.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696034\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme vous le constatez, je remplace Brian, mais je ne suis pas Brian. Brian avait des questions \u00e0 poser, mais il a d\u00fb s'absenter. Je vais donc poser les questions qui l'int\u00e9ressent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696035\" data-originallang=\"en\">S'agissant des passeports, nous sommes au courant des exigences actuelles, mais \u00e0 compter du mois de janvier, ce sera autre chose. Combien d'Am\u00e9ricains traversent la fronti\u00e8re en voiture pour venir au Canada? Ne pensez-vous pas que l'impact sur le tourisme risque d'\u00eatre important?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696036\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par exemple, Montr\u00e9al est situ\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de la fronti\u00e8re am\u00e9ricaine \u2014 elle est \u00e0 \u00e0 peine une heure. Au Nouveau-Brunswick, par exemple, il y a la fronti\u00e8re avec le Maine, et les gens traversent la fronti\u00e8re tous les jours sans \u00eatre munis de passeports.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"696037\" data-originallang=\"en\">M\u00eame pour les personnes qui voyagent en avion, \u00e0 l'heure actuelle, c'est un v\u00e9ritable cauchemar. Les gens doivent maintenant attendre trois mois pour obtenir un passeport. Ce n'est pas facile. Nous n'avons pas suffisamment de bureaux d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du Canada pour r\u00e9gler le probl\u00e8me des passeports. \u00c0 certains endroits, c'est pire. Dans le nord de l'Ontario, par exemple, \u00e0 Sault Ste. Marie, les gens qui ont un besoin urgent de passeport doivent aller \u00e0 Toronto. Imaginez un peu. Vous ne pensez pas que la situation va s'aggraver?</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/industry/39-1/64/yvon-godin-1/",
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