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{
"time": "2007-04-17 14:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Denis Coderre (Bourassa, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"550327\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Conservative cabinet is not ready to discuss the Afghanistan mission's future but it is ready to spend billions of dollars on equipment, like tanks, for the purpose of the mission. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550328\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, there is a problem. The problem is that most of the equipment will not be ready for the troops in the timeframe of the mission. The only way to use them would be to extend our military presence in Afghanistan past February 2009.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550329\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the <a data-HoCid=\"78765\" href=\"/politicians/gordon-oconnor/\" title=\"Gordon O'Connor\">defence minister</a> come clean for once and tell us that his real intention is to stay in Afghanistan past February 2009?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"550327\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le Cabinet conservateur n'est pas dispos\u00e9 \u00e0 discuter de l'avenir de la mission en Afghanistan, mais il est pr\u00eat \u00e0 d\u00e9penser des milliards de dollars pour l'achat de mat\u00e9riel, comme des chars d'assaut, dans le cadre de la mission.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550328\" data-originallang=\"en\">Or, il y a un probl\u00e8me. C'est que la majeure partie du mat\u00e9riel ne sera pas pr\u00eat \u00e0 \u00eatre utilis\u00e9 par les troupes d'ici la fin de la mission. La seule fa\u00e7on dont elles pourraient s'en servir, c'est si elles demeurent en Afghanistan apr\u00e8s f\u00e9vrier 2009. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"550329\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"78765\" href=\"/politicians/gordon-oconnor/\" title=\"Gordon O'Connor\">ministre de la D\u00e9fense</a> va-t-il nous dire clairement une fois pour toutes que sa v\u00e9ritable intention est de garder les troupes en Afghanistan apr\u00e8s f\u00e9vrier 2009? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/4/17/denis-coderre-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denis-coderre/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2668/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2008073",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Afghanistan",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/4/17/",
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}