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{
"time": "2009-04-29 14:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1430078\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the heritage minister is showing almost a pathological aversion for taking responsibility for the fact that his government has outsourced the parliamentary flag pin to China.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1430079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yesterday, he tried to hide behind a bogus WTO claim.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1430080\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would like to read from <em>Hansard</em>, which states, why is the minister:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1430081\" data-originallang=\"en\"> ...hiding behind WTO trade agreements as his excuse for selling off the Canadian flag. Is it because he is too lazy to read the agreement? Maybe it is too complicated or maybe it has too many words. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1430082\" data-originallang=\"en\">Does the House know who said that? The former Conservative, Rahim Jaffer. Why the hypocrisy? </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1430078\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le ministre du Patrimoine \u00e9prouve une aversion presque pathologique pour ce qui est d'assumer la responsabilit\u00e9 du fait que son gouvernement a confi\u00e9 \u00e0 la Chine la production des \u00e9pinglettes \u00e0 l'effigie du drapeau du Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1430079\" data-originallang=\"en\">Hier, il a tent\u00e9 d'invoquer une revendication bidon \u00e0 l'OMC. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1430080\" data-originallang=\"en\"> J'aimerais citer un extrait du hansard, dans lequel un d\u00e9put\u00e9 demande pourquoi le ministre:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1430081\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] se sert des accords commerciaux de l'OMC comme pr\u00e9texte pour justifier le bradage du drapeau canadien. Est-ce parce qu'il est trop paresseux pour le lire? Le texte est peut-\u00eatre trop compliqu\u00e9 ou trop long. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"1430082\" data-originallang=\"en\">La Chambre sait-elle qui a dit cela? C'est l'ancien d\u00e9put\u00e9 conservateur Rahim Jaffer. Pourquoi faire ainsi preuve d'hypocrisie?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/4/29/charlie-angus-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2727549",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canadian Flag Pins",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/4/29/",
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}
}