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This is a single
speech (committee meeting) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2026-04-21 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Marcus Powlowski",
"fr": "Marcus Powlowski"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9307631\" data-originallang=\"en\">No. I think you said you were in no position to verify the numbers or whether this was, financially, a wise move. Well, isn't that the role of the government? If we're looking to provide government services, and if part of what we're trying to do is to contribute to trade diversification and improve our economy, shouldn't we be doing that?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9307631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Non. Je crois que vous avez dit que vous n\u2019\u00e9tiez pas en mesure de v\u00e9rifier ces chiffres ni d'\u00e9tablir si, d\u2019un point de vue financier, c\u2019\u00e9tait une d\u00e9cision judicieuse. Eh bien, n\u2019est\u2011ce pas l\u00e0 le r\u00f4le du gouvernement? Si nous cherchons \u00e0 fournir des services publics, et si l\u2019un de notre objectif est de contribuer \u00e0 la diversification commerciale et d\u2019am\u00e9liorer notre \u00e9conomie, ne devrions-nous pas faire ces v\u00e9rifications nous-m\u00eames?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/public-safety/45-1/33/marcus-powlowski-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/marcus-powlowski/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4551/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13458004",
"document_url": "/committees/public-safety/45-1/33/",
"related": {
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}
}