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{
"time": "2010-04-20 09:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Mike Wallace",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1904212\" data-originallang=\"en\">Turning to the Public Mobile folks, I appreciate your coming today. You have been to my office before to talk to me about these issues.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1904213\" data-originallang=\"en\">The one issue I have in general, and I thought you might be able to shed some light on it today, is that I find that companies in my area\u2014for example, steel companies, Dofasco and so on\u2014have been swallowed up. All steel in this country has been bought by foreigners now; there's no Canadian steel company. Then I'll hear people ask, why did the government allow that to happen?\u201d</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1904214\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I push back a little bit, that Canadians are not great at investing in themselves. I think you said they're a little more risk-averse, especially on the capital side, than other countries may be.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1904215\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Based on your experience and background, can you tell me what obstacles the government has put in place or are there to keep Canadians from investing in Canadian companies? Are they structural, are they policy-based? What are the issues? Why are Canadians not coming to the table more readily for investment opportunities, in your view?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1904212\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais maintenant m'adresser aux repr\u00e9sentants de Public Mobile. Je vous sais gr\u00e9 d'\u00eatre venu ici aujourd'hui. Nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 discut\u00e9 de ces questions ensemble, dans mon bureau. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1904213\" data-originallang=\"en\">De fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, ce qui constitue, selon moi, le probl\u00e8me, et je pense que vous pourrez nous apporter quelques \u00e9claircissements l\u00e0-dessus aujourd'hui, c'est que je constate que les entreprises de ma r\u00e9gion \u2014 par exemple les aci\u00e9ries, Dofasco et d'autres \u2014 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 absorb\u00e9es. Toutes les aci\u00e9ries canadiennes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 rachet\u00e9es par des int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e9trangers; \u00e0 l'heure actuelle, il n'y a plus d'aci\u00e9ries canadiennes. Puis j'entends les gens se demander pourquoi le gouvernement a permis que cela se produise. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1904214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je reviens sur ce que vous avez dit un peu plus t\u00f4t, \u00e0 savoir que les Canadiens ont de la difficult\u00e9 \u00e0 investir dans les entreprises canadiennes. Je crois que vous avez dit que les investisseurs canadiens sont un peu moins enclins que les investisseurs \u00e9trangers \u00e0 prendre des risques, surtout en ce qui concerne les capitaux. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1904215\" data-originallang=\"en\">En vous fondant sur votre exp\u00e9rience et vos ant\u00e9c\u00e9dents, pourrez-vous me dire quels obstacles le gouvernement a pos\u00e9s, ou quels obstacles emp\u00eachent les Canadiens d'investir dans des entreprises canadiennes? S'agit-il d'obstacles de nature structurelle, ou d'obstacles de nature politique? Quels sont les probl\u00e8mes? Pourquoi, d'apr\u00e8s vous, les Canadiens ne s'empressent-ils pas davantage de profiter des occasions d'investissement? </p>"
},
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"source_id": "3102561",
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