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{
"time": "2010-06-02 17:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Lee Richardson (Calgary Centre, CPC)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2004490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I was surprised that the hon. member would feel so comfortable with the philosophy of the NDP considering his exemplary and outstanding contributions to the trade committee on free trade and enterprise.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2004491\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to correct a couple of things. First, this deal was not overt in terms of buy American and, second, subcontracts were readily available. Tens of millions of dollars worth of contracts were available to Canadian companies, which I would like the member to confirm. However, he did support it so I presume he thought the deal we had was better than no deal.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2004492\" data-originallang=\"en\">There was also the concern about what we gave up. Canadian municipalities already were allowing bids from American suppliers, so it is not that we really gave up anything at all but we did gain a considerable amount.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2004490\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis surpris de voir que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 adh\u00e8re \u00e0 la philosophie du NPD \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 ses contributions exemplaires et consid\u00e9rables aux d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations du comit\u00e9 sur le libre-\u00e9change et la libre entreprise.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2004491\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais rectifier certaines choses. Premi\u00e8rement, les dispositions d'achat aux \u00c9tats-Unis ne sont pas express\u00e9ment mentionn\u00e9es dans l'accord, et deuxi\u00e8mement, les entreprises canadiennes avaient facilement acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des sous-contrats. En effet, elles avaient bel et bien acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des contrats d'une valeur de plusieurs dizaines de millions de dollars et j'aimerais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 le confirme. Cependant, il s'est prononc\u00e9 en faveur de l'accord, j'imagine donc qu'il pensait que c'\u00e9tait mieux que rien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2004492\" data-originallang=\"en\">On s'est aussi souci\u00e9 de ce \u00e0 quoi on a d\u00fb renoncer. Les municipalit\u00e9s canadiennes acceptaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 des soumissions de fournisseurs am\u00e9ricains; on ne peut donc pas dire qu'on a renonc\u00e9 \u00e0 quoi que ce soit, mais en revanche, on a beaucoup gagn\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/6/2/lee-richardson-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/lee-richardson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/552/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3200553",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Committees of the House",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/6/2/",
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}