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{
"time": "2007-04-17 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Denis Coderre (Bourassa, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"550320\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, we cannot say that the <a data-HoCid=\"78765\" href=\"/politicians/gordon-oconnor/\" title=\"Gordon O'Connor\">Minister of Defence </a> is a model of clarity.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550321\" data-originallang=\"fr\">He says that we are in Afghanistan to seek vengeance and that we will remain until progress becomes irreversible. He is now talking about violent conflicts such as Afghanistan for the next 10 or 15 years.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550322\" data-originallang=\"fr\">In his nostalgia for the cold war, he is spending $650 million on tanks that he wants to send to Kandahar, a strategic error if ever there was one.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550323\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Can the <a data-HoCid=\"78765\" href=\"/politicians/gordon-oconnor/\" title=\"Gordon O'Connor\">Minister of National Defence</a> tell us, rather than always having to clarify his position, whether or not his real intention is to have Canadian troops remain in Afghanistan beyond February 2009?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"550320\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, on ne peut pas dire que le <a data-HoCid=\"78765\" href=\"/politicians/gordon-oconnor/\" title=\"Gordon O'Connor\">ministre de la D\u00e9fense nationale</a> est un mod\u00e8le de clart\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550321\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Il nous dit qu'on \u00e9tait en Afghanistan par vengeance, qu'on y resterait jusqu'\u00e0 ce que les progr\u00e8s soient irr\u00e9versibles. Il nous parle maintenant de conflits violents comme en Afghanistan pour les 10 ou 15 prochaines ann\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550322\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Dans sa nostalgie de l'\u00e9poque de la guerre froide, il d\u00e9pense 650 millions de dollars pour des tanks qu'il veut envoyer \u00e0 Kandahar, erreur strat\u00e9gique s'il en est. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550323\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"78765\" href=\"/politicians/gordon-oconnor/\" title=\"Gordon O'Connor\">ministre de la D\u00e9fense nationale</a> peut-il nous dire, au lieu d'\u00eatre oblig\u00e9 continuellement de clarifier sa position, que sa v\u00e9ritable intention est que les troupes canadiennes demeurent en Afghanistan apr\u00e8s f\u00e9vrier 2009?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/4/17/denis-coderre-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denis-coderre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2668/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2008066",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Afghanistan",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/4/17/",
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}