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{
"time": "2009-04-27 16:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Joseph Volpe",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1424720\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am so delighted that the hon. member opposite wants to be singular in North America in associating himself with the previous American administration.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424721\" data-originallang=\"en\">This debate was not generated by my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"128199\" href=\"/politicians/mark-holland/\" title=\"Mark Holland\">Ajax\u2014Pickering</a> because we wanted to engage in invective. We wanted to put this entire relationship on an important debating principle associated with facts and the consequences of the way those facts were dealt with for the public. Politics really should be about that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424722\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think many would probably agree with me that when my colleague suggests the previous government might not have done what was required, he probably ignores the fact we went from 14 to 21 consular offices and embassies. We put in place those issues to address the security concerns of the United States.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424723\" data-originallang=\"en\">In fact, we made a commitment to spend the kind of moneys, which the Conservatives are now spending, to secure the northern border so we could move away from these misguided, suspicious initiatives by some members of the American administration.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1424720\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis absolument ravi de voir que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face veut se singulariser en Am\u00e9rique du Nord en s'associant avec le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent gouvernement am\u00e9ricain.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424721\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon coll\u00e8gue d'<a data-HoCid=\"128199\" href=\"/politicians/mark-holland/\" title=\"Mark Holland\">Ajax\u2014Pickering</a> n'a pas lanc\u00e9 le d\u00e9bat parce que nous voulions nous r\u00e9pandre en invectives. Nous voulions faire de cette relation l'enjeu d'un d\u00e9bat fond\u00e9 sur les faits et sur les cons\u00e9quences pour le public de la fa\u00e7on dont ces faits ont \u00e9t\u00e9 trait\u00e9s. C'est d'ailleurs ce que devrait \u00eatre la politique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424722\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bon nombre de d\u00e9put\u00e9s seraient sans doute d'accord avec moi pour dire que, lorsque mon coll\u00e8gue affirme que le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent gouvernement n'a peut-\u00eatre pas fait ce qui \u00e9tait n\u00e9cessaire, il ignore probablement que nous avons fait passer le nombre de consulats et d'ambassades de 14 \u00e0 21. Nous l'avons fait pour r\u00e9pondre aux pr\u00e9occupations des \u00c9tats-Unis en mati\u00e8re de s\u00e9curit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424723\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons promis de d\u00e9penser les m\u00eames montants que les conservateurs d\u00e9pensent actuellement pour rendre s\u00fbre la fronti\u00e8re nord afin de pouvoir nous \u00e9loigner des initiatives peu judicieuses et douteuses de certains membres du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/4/27/joe-volpe-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/joe-volpe/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/606/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2719952",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion--Canada-United States Border",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/4/27/",
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}