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{
"time": "2013-02-28 15:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. St\u00e9phane Dion (Saint-Laurent\u2014Cartierville, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3224619\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224620\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Thank you for being here, Mr. Blais and Mr. Hutton. I want to ask my first question as a regular Canadian.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224621\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The figures you are giving us are very interesting, but how come they do not reflect the reality?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224622\" data-originallang=\"fr\">For example, after a long day, you go back to your hotel, you call your wife and she suggests you watch TV in order to relax. You turn on the TV and you look at the never-ending list of programs available. They are in all kinds of languages, but only Radio-Canada broadcasts in French. You cannot even get RDS to watch a hockey game or RDI to watch the news.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224623\" data-originallang=\"fr\">How is that possible? So you complain to the hotel and threaten never to go back there. I did that here in Ottawa, in a hotel that shall remain nameless. I told them that, if they did not get RDS before the playoffs, I would not go back to their hotel. They were scared because it was me, but if I had just been your average Joe, I doubt if they would have budged.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224624\" data-originallang=\"fr\">How can we have come to that point? What is going on?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3224619\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224620\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Messieurs Blais et Hutton, je vous remercie d'\u00eatre parmi nous. J'ai envie de poser ma premi\u00e8re question \u00e0 titre de citoyen.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224621\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les chiffres que vous nous donnez sont tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressants, mais comment se fait-il que cela ne se refl\u00e8te pas dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224622\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Apr\u00e8s une longue journ\u00e9e, par exemple, vous retournez \u00e0 votre h\u00f4tel, vous appelez votre \u00e9pouse et elle vous recommande de regarder une \u00e9mission pour vous d\u00e9tendre. Vous mettez le t\u00e9l\u00e9viseur en marche et consultez l'interminable liste d'\u00e9missions qui sont au programme. Elles sont dans toutes sortes de langues, mais aucune autre cha\u00eene que Radio-Canada ne diffuse en fran\u00e7ais. Il n'y a m\u00eame pas RDS pour regarder une partie de hockey ou RDI pour \u00e9couter les informations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224623\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Comment est-ce possible? Vous vous plaignez donc \u00e0 l'h\u00f4tel et menacez de ne plus y revenir. C'est ce que j'ai fait, ici m\u00eame \u00e0 Ottawa, dans un h\u00f4tel que je ne nommerai pas. J'ai dit \u00e0 ces gens que s'ils n'offraient pas la cha\u00eene RDS avant les \u00e9liminatoires, je ne reviendrais plus dans leur h\u00f4tel. Ils ont eu peur parce que c'\u00e9tait moi, mais s'il s'\u00e9tait agi de Jean Dupont, ils n'auraient sans doute pas boug\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3224624\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Comment se fait-il qu'on en soit venu \u00e0 cela? Que se passe-t-il?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/69/stephane-dion-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/stephane-dion/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3686/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "7910780",
"document_url": "/committees/official-languages/41-1/69/",
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}