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{
"time": "2012-06-05 11:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Gerald Keddy (South Shore\u2014St. Margaret's, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2937123\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chairman.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937124\" data-originallang=\"en\">Welcome to our witnesses. It's very interesting testimony, and quite frankly, I think we have two contrasting but interesting witnesses here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937125\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do want to pick up, Mr. Tak, on just a couple of points while they're fresh in my mind. I appreciate your comments and your knowledge of doing business in Japan, and importantly, certainly your knowledge of the language and of the way business actually operates and the areas in Japan in which it operates. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937126\" data-originallang=\"en\">I appreciate your comments on the visa office in Tokyo, but to be fair what the minister was doing here was replacing a system under which it takes 30 days to get a visa with an online system under which it should take 10 days to get a visa. If we can get through those hiccups, there really should be an improvement to the system, although I take your point that face-to-face contact, especially in Japan, is important.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937127\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I'd just like some clarification on your comments about the nutritional supplements coming out of Japan and then being taxed when they go back in, because it makes no sense whatsoever for us to be importing products from Japan and then paying a tax on those products when they're being shipped back into the country. I don't know if you have a specific recommendation on how to get around that. We can address the situation of those specific products in a free trade agreement.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2937123\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937124\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je souhaite la bienvenue \u00e0 nos t\u00e9moins. Nous avons entendu des t\u00e9moignages tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressants qui, pour \u00eatre franc, sont assez contrastants, ce qui ne leur enl\u00e8ve rien de leur int\u00e9r\u00eat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937125\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Tak, je voudrais revenir sur quelques points pendant que je les ai encore en m\u00e9moire. J'appr\u00e9cie vos commentaires et votre connaissance des m\u00e9thodes d'affaires japonaises. J'appr\u00e9cie surtout votre connaissance de la langue, du fonctionnement des milieux d'affaires et du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937126\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je comprends vos observations concernant le bureau des visas de Tokyo, mais je dirai, pour \u00eatre \u00e9quitable, qu'en prenant cette d\u00e9cision, le ministre a remplac\u00e9 un syst\u00e8me dans lequel le d\u00e9lai d'obtention d'un visa \u00e9tait de 30 jours par un syst\u00e8me en ligne qui ram\u00e8ne ce d\u00e9lai \u00e0 10 jours. Si nous pouvons surmonter ces contretemps, nous am\u00e9liorerons r\u00e9ellement le syst\u00e8me, mais je prends quand m\u00eame note de votre point de vue que les contacts en personne sont importants, surtout au Japon.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2937127\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais avoir des pr\u00e9cisions sur vos observations relatives aux suppl\u00e9ments de sant\u00e9 import\u00e9s du Japon qui sont frapp\u00e9s d'un droit d'importation lorsqu'ils reviennent dans le pays. Il serait insens\u00e9 pour nous d'importer des produits japonais, puis de payer un droit lorsque nous les r\u00e9exportons au Japon. Je ne sais pas si vous avez une recommandation pr\u00e9cise \u00e0 formuler sur les moyens de r\u00e9gler ce probl\u00e8me. Nous pouvons aborder la question dans le cadre de la n\u00e9gociation d'un accord de libre-\u00e9change.</p>"
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