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{
"time": "2010-03-30 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Paul Szabo (Mississauga South, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1839873\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, one of my constituents expressed the sentiments of a number of the people who have written to me when he stated, \u201cThere is no evidence suggesting that Canadian investments in Colombia will contribute to improving human rights\u201d. This assumption, this hope, this belief seems to be permeating the discussion about whether there is any evidence that the existence of a trade agreement necessarily would have some improvements in terms of the human rights situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1839874\" data-originallang=\"en\">I share the member's concern about the amendment that is being proposed from the standpoint that I am not quite sure whether a report of both governments to their own parliaments on the trade deal's impact on human rights will be substantive or significant enough to sway the history and the facts of what the current situation is in Colombia, or would exist. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1839875\" data-originallang=\"en\">The marginal effects of a trade deal may have some impact, but the real question, to me, and I wonder if the member would comment, seems to be what is the current and ongoing position of human rights abuses in Colombia.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1839873\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, un de mes \u00e9lecteurs a exprim\u00e9 les m\u00eames sentiments qu'un certain nombre de personnes qui m'ont \u00e9crit quand il a dit que \u00ab rien n'indique que les investissements canadiens en Colombie contribueront \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer le respect des droits de la personne dans ce pays \u00bb. Cette hypoth\u00e8se, cet esp\u00e9rance, cette conviction semble \u00eatre omnipr\u00e9sente dans la discussion, \u00e0 savoir s'il y a des preuves indiquant que l'existence d'un accord commercial contribuerait n\u00e9cessairement \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer la situation des droits de la personne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1839874\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme mon coll\u00e8gue, je suis pr\u00e9occup\u00e9 par les modifications propos\u00e9es, en ce sens que je ne sais trop si un rapport des deux gouvernements \u00e0 leurs parlements respectifs concernant les effets de l'accord commercial sur les droits de la personne sera assez \u00e9toff\u00e9 ou assez important pour modifier l'histoire ou la situation actuelle en Colombie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1839875\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les effets, m\u00eames minimes, d'un accord commercial peuvent se faire sentir, mais il me semble que la v\u00e9ritable question, et je me demande si mon coll\u00e8gue veut faire un commentaire, est celle de savoir ce qu'est la situation actuelle en mati\u00e8re de violations des droits de la personne en Colombie.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/3/30/paul-szabo-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/paul-szabo/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3198/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3071998",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/3/30/",
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}