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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2010-10-22 10:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Geoff Regan (Halifax West, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2110853\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, at the beginning of his speech, my hon. colleague from South Shore--St. Margaret's spoke about the long trading history our province of Nova Scotia has had the Caribbean region. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2110854\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think of the Caribbean region as a little more than Central America as the history of trade because we think of the many years over which Nova Scotia would ship fish to the Caribbean and then the ships would not come back empty. They would come back with things like molasses and sometimes some other liquid products from sugar cane that were well known and a source of considerable wealth in his part of Nova Scotia and other parts of Nova Scotia. Particularly during the time of prohibition in the U.S., the region was known for the movement of some considerable quantity of rum.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2110855\" data-originallang=\"en\">What does the member see in this agreement in terms of benefits for businesses in Nova Scotia and their workers but also in terms of the benefits for people in Panama.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2110853\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, au d\u00e9but de son discours, mon coll\u00e8gue de South Shore\u2014St. Margaret's a parl\u00e9 de la longue histoire commerciale que notre province, la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, partage avec les Cara\u00efbes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2110854\" data-originallang=\"en\">En termes d'histoire du commerce, je pense davantage aux Cara\u00efbes qu'\u00e0 l'Am\u00e9rique centrale en raison des nombreuses ann\u00e9es au cours desquelles la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse exp\u00e9diait du poisson dans les Cara\u00efbes et ses navires ne revenaient pas vides. Ils revenaient charg\u00e9s de produits comme de la m\u00e9lasse et, parfois, d'autres produits liquides bien connus fabriqu\u00e9s \u00e0 base de canne \u00e0 sucre et qui g\u00e9n\u00e9raient d'importants revenus dans diverses r\u00e9gions de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, dont celle du d\u00e9put\u00e9. Surtout \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque de la prohibition aux \u00c9tats-Unis, la r\u00e9gion \u00e9tait reconnue pour les importantes quantit\u00e9s de rhum qui y circulaient.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2110855\" data-originallang=\"en\">D'apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9put\u00e9, quels sont les avantages de cet accord pour les entreprises de la Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse et leurs employ\u00e9s, de m\u00eame que pour les habitants du Panama?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/10/22/geoff-regan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/geoff-regan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1640/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3402238",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada-Panama Free Trade Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/10/22/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2010%2F10%2F22%2F"
}
}