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{
    "time": "2003-04-29 12:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Ken Epp",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the bill provides, as I mentioned, two representatives from the federal government and one from the provincial government. It can have three to five from the local municipal government which is good. These are local authorities that are running the individual airports, so to have some representatives on the national airport authority board would really be great.</p>\n<p>I wish to indicate here that there can be representation from economic organizations, provincial associations, lawyers, engineers or accountants, community organizations, and I guess the local 4H Club or some unions. There can be three to five members that can come from these different groups. One of those groups represents domestic air carriers. They may come from that but there is not a mandatory requirement.</p>\n<p>Compare that to Nav Canada where it is mandated that 5 of the 15 members of that board be representatives from the airline industry. That similar condition is not required by the bill and that is a totally serious oversight or flaw.</p>\n<p>I would like to hear from this member, but he probably does not have the authority here because people from the backrooms have not e-mailed him on his Blackberry to say, yes, go for this. But I would like to ask him, at least personally, if an amendment like that were made, would he personally support it because it makes so much sense?</p>",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "url": "/debates/2003/4/29/ken-epp-5/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/99/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1559/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Governement Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada Airports Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2003/4/29/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2003%2F4%2F29%2F"
    }
}