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{
"time": "2026-02-23 11:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Will Greaves (Victoria, Lib.)",
"fr": "Will Greaves (Victoria, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9202225\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Mr. Chair. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202226\" data-originallang=\"en\">Good morning, colleagues. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202227\" data-originallang=\"en\">Also, welcome to my honourable colleague from Nanaimo. We have a veritable surplus of Vancouver Islanders on the committee this morning. It's wonderful, although Mr. Marr had the good sense to stay on the west coast.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202228\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'll ask a question of Mr. Marr. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you for joining us, sir. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202230\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'd like to ask you to continue to sketch out this big-picture vision for the port of Nanaimo in the near and medium-term future. As you've already alluded to, we understand that Nanaimo plays a critical role not just for that community but also as the major port for Vancouver Island. We also know that the west coast ports in this country are absolutely critical to our trade diversification efforts, in particular for opening new markets and accessing the Asia-Pacific region. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202231\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could you give us a sketch, please, Mr. Marr, of how you see the port of Nanaimo's role changing over the next decade, beyond just moving more containers? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9202225\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202226\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bonjour, chers coll\u00e8gues.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202227\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je souhaite \u00e9galement la bienvenue \u00e0 mon honorable coll\u00e8gue de Nanaimo. Je vois un surplus d'habitants de l'\u00eele de Vancouver \u00e0 notre r\u00e9union ce matin. C'est merveilleux, mais seul M. Marr a eu le bon sens de ne pas quitter la c\u00f4te Ouest.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202228\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma question s'adresse \u00e0 M. Marr.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202229\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci de vous joindre \u00e0 nous, monsieur.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202230\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais vous demander de poursuivre l'esquisse de l'avenir du port de Nanaimo \u00e0 court et \u00e0 moyen terme. Par rapport \u00e0 ce que vous avez mentionn\u00e9, il est \u00e9vident que le port de Nanaimo joue un r\u00f4le essentiel non seulement pour votre collectivit\u00e9, mais aussi en tant que principal port de l'\u00eele de Vancouver. Nous comprenons \u00e9galement que les ports de la c\u00f4te Ouest sont absolument essentiels aux efforts de diversification commerciale du pays, surtout pour ouvrir de nouveaux march\u00e9s et acc\u00e9der \u00e0 la r\u00e9gion de l'Asie-Pacifique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9202231\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourriez-vous nous donner un aper\u00e7u, s'il vous pla\u00eet, monsieur Marr, de la fa\u00e7on dont vous envisagez l'\u00e9volution du r\u00f4le du port de Nanaimo au cours de la prochaine d\u00e9cennie, outre le simple transport d'un plus grand nombre de conteneurs?</p>"
},
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