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{
"time": "2008-05-16 11:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1100925\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Canada has a forestry industry in crisis and a Conservative government that does not respond. The mill closure in Mackenzie, B.C. is just the latest example.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1100926\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The government is allowing countless companies and communities to flounder and fail without planning for future market cycles. Without targeted help, forestry jobs will disappear, never to return.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1100927\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why is the Conservative government handing billions of dollars to oil companies while letting these forest families struggle with an impact that is devastating in local communities?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1100925\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le Canada se retrouve avec une industrie foresti\u00e8re en crise et un gouvernement conservateur qui reste les bras crois\u00e9s. La fermeture de l'usine de Mackenzie, en Colombie-Britannique, est une autre illustration de ce probl\u00e8me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1100926\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement abandonne entreprises et populations \u00e0 leur triste sort et ne planifie pas en vue des cycles futurs du march\u00e9. Sans aide cibl\u00e9e \u00e0 l'industrie foresti\u00e8re, les emplois qui s'y trouvent vont dispara\u00eetre pour de bon.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1100927\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le gouvernement conservateur fait-il cadeau de milliards de dollars aux soci\u00e9t\u00e9s p\u00e9troli\u00e8res alors qu'il laisse les familles vivant dans les r\u00e9gions foresti\u00e8res se d\u00e9battre toutes seules, ce qui a un effet d\u00e9vastateur sur leur milieu de vie local?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2008/5/16/libby-davies-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/libby-davies/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2499/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2482689",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Forestry Industry",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2008/5/16/",
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}
}