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{
"time": "2009-04-27 17:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Paul Calandra (Oak Ridges\u2014Markham, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1424832\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened to the comments of many of the members opposite today and I reflect on all the times during the last campaign and in the House that I have heard the phrase \u201cAmerican-style\u201d used as a way of putting down other people.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424833\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if the member could also comment on what damage the previous government's response to 9/11 did to our relationship with the Americans. I would suggest that, in times of crisis, one of the things our most important trading partner and biggest friend will remember is how people responded. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424834\" data-originallang=\"en\">I recall that presidents and prime ministers from around the world visited the United States soon after 9/11 occurred, yet it took the previous Liberal government some three weeks to get to the United States. It took the previous prime minister three weeks, and then when he got there, to add insult to injury, he decided not to visit ground zero because he had to make it back to Canada for a Liberal Party fundraiser.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424835\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if the member might comment on how that really started the demise of the relationship between Canada and the United States, especially coming after some extraordinary progress made by previous Conservative governments that led to a free trade agreement that has--</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1424832\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 les propos de bien des d\u00e9put\u00e9s d'en face aujourd'hui et je ne peux m'emp\u00eacher de penser \u00e0 toutes les fois, pendant la derni\u00e8re campagne \u00e9lectorale aussi bien que dans cette Chambre, o\u00f9 j'ai entendu l'expression \u00ab \u00e0 l'am\u00e9ricaine \u00bb utilis\u00e9e tout \u00e0 fait p\u00e9jorativement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424833\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e pourrait \u00e9galement expliquer les dommages qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 caus\u00e9s \u00e0 nos relations avec les Am\u00e9ricains par la r\u00e9action du gouvernement pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent aux \u00e9v\u00e9nements du 11 septembre. Selon moi, en temps de crise, l'une des choses dont notre plus important partenaire commercial et ami se souviendra sera la fa\u00e7on dont les gens ont r\u00e9agi. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424834\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me souviens que des pr\u00e9sidents et des premiers ministres du monde entier ont visit\u00e9 les \u00c9tats-Unis peu apr\u00e8s ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements. Pourtant, il a fallu au gouvernement lib\u00e9ral pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent plus de trois semaines pour se rendre aux \u00c9tats-Unis. Il a fallu trois semaines \u00e0 l'ancien premier ministre. Une fois rendu sur les lieux, ajoutant l'insulte \u00e0 l'injure, celui-ci a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de ne pas visiter le point z\u00e9ro parce qu'il devait rentrer au Canada pour participer \u00e0 une activit\u00e9 de financement du Parti lib\u00e9ral. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1424835\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande si la d\u00e9put\u00e9e pourrait expliquer comment cet \u00e9pisode a vraiment amorc\u00e9 l'effritement des relations entre le Canada et les \u00c9tats-Unis, compte tenu en particulier des progr\u00e8s extraordinaires r\u00e9alis\u00e9s par les gouvernements conservateurs pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents qui ont abouti \u00e0 un accord de libre-\u00e9change qui a...</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/4/27/paul-calandra-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/paul-calandra/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/979/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2720423",
"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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}