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{
    "time": "2010-03-18 09:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Claude Gravelle (Nickel Belt, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1830626\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1830627\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Minister, I'd like to turn your attention to FedNor. On this issue, you and I have different views. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1830628\" data-originallang=\"en\">On one hand, you are more than happy to proclaim the benefits of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency or Western Economic Diversification Canada or Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions or the southern Ontario development agency. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1830629\" data-originallang=\"en\">On the other hand, your favourite pat answers to northerners' requests to have our own stand-alone agency is that we don't need more bureaucracy. Which is it? Usually what's good for the goose is good for the gander, so when will you give northerners their own stand-alone economic development agency?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1830626\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1830627\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le ministre, je voudrais attirer votre attention sur FedNor. Je crois que nos points de vue sont diff\u00e9rents \u00e0 ce sujet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1830628\" data-originallang=\"en\">D\u2019une part, vous vous vantez constamment des avantages de l\u2019Agence de promotion \u00e9conomique du Canada atlantique, de Diversification \u00e9conomique de l\u2019Ouest, de l\u2019Agence de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique du Canada pour les r\u00e9gions du Qu\u00e9bec ou encore de l\u2019Agence f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique pour le Sud de l\u2019Ontario.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1830629\" data-originallang=\"en\">D\u2019autre part, chaque fois que les gens du Nord r\u00e9clament leur propre agence autonome de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique, vous leur r\u00e9pondez que nous n\u2019avons pas besoin d\u2019une plus grande bureaucratie. Il faudrait vous brancher. Si les agences autonomes sont bonnes pour les uns, elles devraient l'\u00eatre pour les autres. Quand allez-vous donc accorder aux gens du Nord leur propre agence de d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/industry/40-3/3/claude-gravelle-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/claude-gravelle/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1054/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3043845",
    "document_url": "/committees/industry/40-3/3/",
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    }
}