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{
"time": "2008-02-06 14:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Navdeep Bains (Mississauga\u2014Brampton South, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"883531\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, when this vindictive, dishonest, incompetent government signed the softwood lumber agreement, we told the government that it was flawed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"883532\" data-originallang=\"en\">The <a data-HoCid=\"78741\" href=\"/politicians/98/\" title=\"David Emerson\">Minister of International Trade</a> claimed that it would end years of litigation. He was wrong. American lobby groups are using the billion dollar tip left by the Conservative government to sue us and now they have threatened to take us to court over the Conservative band-aid trust fund.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"883533\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why is the Conservative government more worried about funding American lobbyists than helping Canadian workers?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"883531\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, quand ce gouvernement vindicatif, malhonn\u00eate et incomp\u00e9tent a sign\u00e9 l'accord sur le bois d'oeuvre, nous lui avons dit que l'accord \u00e9tait mauvais.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"883532\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le <a data-HoCid=\"78741\" href=\"/politicians/98/\" title=\"David Emerson\">ministre du Commerce international</a> a soutenu que l'accord mettrait fin \u00e0 des ann\u00e9es de litiges. Il se trompait. Les groupes de pression am\u00e9ricains se servent du pourboire d'un milliard de dollars laiss\u00e9 par le gouvernement conservateur pour nous poursuivre. Ils ont maintenant menac\u00e9 de nous tra\u00eener devant les tribunaux \u00e0 cause de la fiducie de fortune des conservateurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"883533\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement conservateur pr\u00e9f\u00e8re-t-il financer des lobbyistes am\u00e9ricains au lieu d'aider les travailleurs canadiens?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/2/6/navdeep-bains-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/navdeep-bains/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1391/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2302172",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Softwood Lumber",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/2/6/",
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}
}