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{
    "time": "2014-03-25 09:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Iris Unger",
        "fr": "Mme Iris Unger"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3636783\" data-originallang=\"en\">It's a real challenge. As I mentioned, it's a global issue. We have a lot of unemployed people who are coming to us with liberal arts degrees and arts degrees. It's very difficult, because yes, there are jobs, especially in the creative field where people are looking for programmers, gamers, and all of that, and they're importing people. That's why I was saying that this is a huge potential for our community, if we can figure out ways to support these people and integrate them into our community. A lot of these companies have to go outside the province to get qualified people. For a lot of those people the challenge becomes the family, which is an issue. If their families can't send their children to English schools or can't integrate into an English community, they're not going to stay in those jobs.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3636783\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est tout un d\u00e9fi. Comme je l'ai dit, c'est un enjeu global. De nombreuses personnes sans emploi que nous rencontrons ont un dipl\u00f4me en arts. C'est tr\u00e8s difficile, puisque oui, il y a de l'emploi, surtout dans le domaine de la cr\u00e9ation: on cherche des programmeurs, des joueurs et d'autres, et on importe le talent. C'est pourquoi je disais que le potentiel est \u00e9norme pour notre communaut\u00e9; il faut trouver des fa\u00e7ons d'appuyer ces gens et de les int\u00e9grer \u00e0 notre communaut\u00e9. De nombreuses entreprises doivent trouver des employ\u00e9s qualifi\u00e9s \u00e0 l'ext\u00e9rieure de la province. Pour beaucoup de ces gens, le d\u00e9fi devient alors la famille, ce qui pose probl\u00e8me. Si les familles ne peuvent inscrire leurs enfants \u00e0 l'\u00e9cole anglophone ou int\u00e9grer une communaut\u00e9 anglophone, elles ne resteront pas.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/official-languages/41-2/15/iris-unger-8/",
    "politician_url": null,
    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8273833",
    "document_url": "/committees/official-languages/41-2/15/",
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}