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{
"time": "2008-02-14 13:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. G\u00e9rard Asselin (Manicouagan, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"906719\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary has said from the start that the government is managing priorities. Now, in 2008, it has to manage priorities, because the wharves and harbours have not been maintained for 15 years. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"906720\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is like someone who wants to save money to pay off his mortgage, but who lets his house go to ruin. The roof and basement leak, but his priority is not to maintain his house, but to pay off his mortgage. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"906721\" data-originallang=\"fr\">That is more or less what the Conservatives are doing. Even though they have a budget surplus, they are not maintaining federal infrastructure. Airports, harbours and wharves belong to the federal government.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"906722\" data-originallang=\"fr\">My question is for the member. If Fisheries and Oceans Canada has no money to maintain small craft harbours, should we ask the department responsible for helping developing and war-ravaged countries, the Department of International Cooperation, for money to build roads on the lower North Shore and maintain our wharves?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"906719\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire nous depuis le d\u00e9but que le gouvernement g\u00e8re les priorit\u00e9s. Or, aujourd'hui, en 2008, il est oblig\u00e9 de g\u00e9rer les priorit\u00e9s parce que cela fait 15 ans que les quais et les ports n'ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 entretenus. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"906720\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Cela fait penser \u00e0 quelqu'un qui veut \u00e9pargner son argent pour payer son hypoth\u00e8que, mais qui laisse d\u00e9truire sa r\u00e9sidence: son toit coule sur le plancher et dans le sous-sol, mais sa pr\u00e9occupation n'est pas d'entretenir sa r\u00e9sidence mais de payer son hypoth\u00e8que. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"906721\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est un peu cela que font les conservateurs. Avec les surplus budg\u00e9taires qu'ils accumulent, ils n'entretiennent m\u00eame pas leurs propres \u00e9quipements. Les a\u00e9roports, les ports et les quais appartiennent au gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"906722\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ma question s'adresse au d\u00e9put\u00e9. S'il n'y a pas d'argent \u00e0 P\u00eaches et Oc\u00e9ans Canada ni dans les coffres pour entretenir les ports pour petits bateaux, devrait-on faire une demande au minist\u00e8re responsable d'aider les pays en voie de d\u00e9veloppement et les pays d\u00e9vast\u00e9s par la guerre, le minist\u00e8re de la Coop\u00e9ration internationale, pour pouvoir construire des routes sur la Basse-C\u00f4te-Nord et entretenir nos quais? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/2/14/gerard-asselin-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/gerard-asselin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1491/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2324522",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Fisheries and Oceans",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/2/14/",
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}
}