Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-11-04 16:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. James Moore (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2145271\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I was having some meetings but I noticed that my hon. colleague, the official languages critic for the NDP, was here in the House to speak in this debate. I just noticed that we have had over the past day and a half very good debates in the House on copyright reform. Different parties have come forward with their views and hopefully that legislation will go to committee.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145272\" data-originallang=\"en\">Obviously, there is plenty of room for discussion and debate with regard to foreign direct investment, the degree to which it is beneficial to Canada and the degree to which the government should or should not respond to the regime in which we approach these considerations, but there is no need to yell and scream and attack people's motives on this issue. There are plenty of examples.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145273\" data-originallang=\"en\">As a matter of fact, the largest employer in the riding of the NDP member for <a data-HoCid=\"128505\" href=\"/politicians/peter-julian/\" title=\"Peter Julian\">Burnaby\u2014New Westminster</a> is Electronic Arts Sports, an American-owned video game software company that is hiring thousands of his constituents in Burnaby\u2014New Westminster in the video game and software development industry. It is massively profitable. That is a direct example of foreign direct investment into his own riding. That is the largest employer in his riding, with high-paying, high-quality jobs in the tech sector. That is foreign direct investment hiring Canadians.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145274\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are examples, certainly with regard to natural resources in different regions of the country that have different pressures and different dynamics, and members opposite are more than welcome to raise those concerns. We can have a debate about them and that is fine. However, the one thing I wanted to underline is that it is not all bad but it is not all good and the government has a responsibility to make decisions that are in the best interest of Canadians, the net best interest as the legislation describes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145275\" data-originallang=\"en\">What I wanted to clarify is the member's attack, frankly, on the members of Parliament from Saskatchewan. There are 14 members of Parliament elected from the province of Saskatchewan and 13 of the 14 are Conservatives. It is different when one is on the governing side of the House of Commons. I can say that the members of Parliament who are over here, including you, Mr. Speaker, and I see the member from Saskatoon and others, work incredibly hard, and just because they do not turn red and yell it into a television camera does not mean that they are not working very hard for the people of Saskatchewan. I can say that they are.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145276\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is a very difficult issue and they took their responsibilities seriously to balance the best interests of all of Canada and their constituents, and they did their job.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2145271\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j\u2019assistais \u00e0 des r\u00e9unions, mais j\u2019ai remarqu\u00e9 que mon coll\u00e8gue, le porte-parole du NPD en mati\u00e8re de langues officielles, se trouvait \u00e0 la Chambre pour participer au d\u00e9bat. J\u2019ai fait remarquer que nous avions depuis un jour et demi d\u2019excellents d\u00e9bats \u00e0 la Chambre sur la r\u00e9forme du droit d\u2019auteur. Diff\u00e9rents partis ont expos\u00e9 leurs id\u00e9es, et j\u2019esp\u00e8re que le projet de loi sera renvoy\u00e9 au comit\u00e9. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145272\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est bien \u00e9vident qu\u2019il y a largement place pour des discussions et des d\u00e9bats sur l\u2019investissement \u00e9tranger direct, ses avantages pour le Canada et l\u2019intervention ou non du gouvernement dans le r\u00e9gime qui encadre ces consid\u00e9rations, mais il est inutile de vocif\u00e9rer et de faire des proc\u00e8s d\u2019intention aux autres. Les exemples ne manquent pas. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145273\" data-originallang=\"en\"> En fait, le plus grand employeur dans la circonscription du d\u00e9put\u00e9 n\u00e9o-d\u00e9mocrate de <a data-HoCid=\"128505\" href=\"/politicians/peter-julian/\" title=\"Peter Julian\">Burnaby\u2014New Westminster</a> est Electronic Arts Sports, un fabricant de logiciels de jeux vid\u00e9o. Cette entreprise engage des milliers d\u2019\u00e9lecteurs de Burnaby\u2014New Westminster dans l\u2019industrie du jeu vid\u00e9o et du logiciel. C\u2019est extr\u00eamement rentable. Voil\u00e0 un exemple d\u2019investissement \u00e9tranger direct dans la circonscription du d\u00e9put\u00e9. C\u2019est l\u2019employeur le plus important de sa circonscription, et il fournit des emplois tr\u00e8s bien r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s et de tr\u00e8s grande qualit\u00e9 dans le secteur de la technologie. Voil\u00e0 un investissement \u00e9tranger direct qui donne des emplois \u00e0 des Canadiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145274\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Il y a certainement des cas o\u00f9, dans les ressources naturelles de diff\u00e9rentes r\u00e9gions, les pressions et la dynamique sont diff\u00e9rentes, et les d\u00e9put\u00e9s d\u2019en face ont parfaitement le droit de soulever leurs pr\u00e9occupations. Nous pouvons en discuter, et c\u2019est tr\u00e8s bien. La seule chose que je voulais signaler, toutefois, c\u2019est que tout n\u2019est pas bon et tout n\u2019est pas mauvais, et que le gouvernement a la responsabilit\u00e9 de prendre des d\u00e9cisions qui servent l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat sup\u00e9rieur des Canadiens, qui sont \u00e0 l\u2019avantage net du Canada, comme la loi le dit. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145275\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je voulais tirer quelque chose au clair \u00e0 propos de l\u2019offensive du d\u00e9put\u00e9 contre les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de la Saskatchewan. La Saskatchewan est repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par 14 d\u00e9put\u00e9s au Parlement, dont 13 sont conservateurs. Les choses se passent diff\u00e9remment quand on si\u00e8ge du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes. Je peux dire que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s qui si\u00e8gent de ce c\u00f4t\u00e9, vous compris, monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, et je constate aussi la pr\u00e9sence du d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Saskatoon, entre autres, travaillent avec une incroyable \u00e9nergie. Ce n\u2019est pas parce qu\u2019ils ne sont pas \u00e9carlates et ne crient pas devant les cam\u00e9ras de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision qu\u2019ils ne travaillent pas tr\u00e8s fort pour les habitants de leur province. Je peux dire qu\u2019ils le font.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2145276\" data-originallang=\"en\"> La question est fort difficile, et ces d\u00e9put\u00e9s ont pris au s\u00e9rieux leurs responsabilit\u00e9s, c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire concilier les int\u00e9r\u00eats sup\u00e9rieurs de tout le Canada et ceux de leurs \u00e9lecteurs. Et ils ont fait leur travail.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/11/4/james-moore-2/",
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    "source_id": "3474463",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion--Foreign Takeovers",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/11/4/",
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