{"time": "2012-10-25 12:45:00", "attribution": {"en": "Ms. Joyce Bateman (Winnipeg South Centre, CPC)", "fr": "Mme Joyce Bateman (Winnipeg-Centre-Sud, PCC)"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3047398\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3047399\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you for joining us, along with your team. I am proud to be here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3047400\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I want to begin by specifying that I am an anglophone and that I have two bilingual children because our school system and our country value both languages. The fact that my children are bilingual is a gift. I am very interested in the comments from your report.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3047401\" data-originallang=\"fr\">You talked about Manitoba. Like myself, you hail from that province, and I am proud of that.</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3047398\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3047399\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Je vous remercie d'\u00eatre parmi nous, avec votre \u00e9quipe. Pour ma part, je suis fi\u00e8re d'\u00eatre ici.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3047400\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Premi\u00e8rement, je veux pr\u00e9ciser que je suis anglophone et que j'ai deux enfants bilingues gr\u00e2ce au fait que notre syst\u00e8me scolaire et notre pays valorisent les deux langues. Le fait que mes enfants soient bilingues est un cadeau. Les commentaires que vous avez \u00e9mis dans votre rapport m'int\u00e9ressent beaucoup.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3047401\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Par ailleurs, vous avez parl\u00e9 du Manitoba. Comme moi, vous venez de cette province, et j'en suis fi\u00e8re.</p>"}, "url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/56/joyce-bateman-1/", "politician_url": "/politicians/joyce-bateman/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4092/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "7742108", "document_url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/56/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fofficial-languages%2F41-1%2F56%2F"}}