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{
"time": "2011-06-15 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Dominic LeBlanc (Beaus\u00e9jour, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2439290\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday when we asked the minister of state about the case of Henk Tepper, a New Brunswick potato farmer imprisoned for almost three months in Lebanon as a result of a commercial dispute in Algeria, the minister gave us a narrow technical answer about consular services offered to Mr. Tepper.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2439291\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Tepper's wife and children want to ask the minister why she has not personally intervened with her counterpart in Lebanon to ask for Mr. Tepper's safe return to Canada. Why the refusal to use political means with the government of Lebanon to have this Canadian farmer safely returned to Canada and end the ordeal in Lebanon?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2439290\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, lorsque nous avons pos\u00e9 des questions \u00e0 la ministre d'\u00c9tat au sujet du dossier de M. Tepper, un producteur de pommes de terre du Nouveau-Brunswick emprisonn\u00e9 depuis pr\u00e8s de trois mois au Liban \u00e0 la suite d'un diff\u00e9rend commercial avec l'Alg\u00e9rie, la ministre a fourni une r\u00e9ponse technique concernant les services consulaires qui lui avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 offerts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2439291\" data-originallang=\"en\">La femme et les enfants de M. Tepper aimeraient savoir pourquoi la ministre n'est pas intervenue personnellement aupr\u00e8s de son homologue libanais pour demander qu'il puisse revenir en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9 au Canada. Pourquoi a-t-elle refus\u00e9 d'utiliser des moyens politiques pour exiger de la part du gouvernement du Liban que cet agriculteur canadien puisse revenir au Canada en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et ainsi mettre un terme \u00e0 son calvaire au Liban?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/6/15/dominic-leblanc-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dominic-leblanc/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1314/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3891478",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Foreign Affairs",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/6/15/",
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}