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{
"time": "2011-09-20 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Pat Martin (Winnipeg-Centre, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2471294\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Wheat Board is the largest and most successful grain marketing company in the world. We do not dismantle a $6 billion a year corporation without significant closing costs that KPMG has actually set at $500 million.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2471295\" data-originallang=\"en\">In this era of high deficits, how can the Conservatives defend borrowing $500 million they do not have just to indulge the foolish free market flight of fancy of a feckless <a data-HoCid=\"111568\" href=\"/politicians/gerry-ritz/\" title=\"Gerry Ritz\">Minister of Agriculture</a>?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2471294\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la Commission canadienne du bl\u00e9 est la plus grosse soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de commercialisation du bl\u00e9 au monde et celle qui obtient les meilleurs r\u00e9sultats. On ne d\u00e9mant\u00e8le pas une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 ayant un chiffre d'affaires de 6 milliards de dollars par ann\u00e9e sans qu'il y ait d'importants co\u00fbts associ\u00e9s \u00e0 la fermeture. Une \u00e9tude de KPMG \u00e9tablit ces co\u00fbts \u00e0 500 millions de dollars.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2471295\" data-originallang=\"en\">Compte tenu des d\u00e9ficits actuels, comment les conservateurs peuvent-ils justifier un emprunt de 500 millions de dollars simplement pour satisfaire les caprices du <a data-HoCid=\"111568\" href=\"/politicians/gerry-ritz/\" title=\"Gerry Ritz\">ministre de l\u2019Agriculture</a>, qui est obs\u00e9d\u00e9 par l'id\u00e9e folle de tout soumettre \u00e0 la main magique du march\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2011/9/20/pat-martin-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "4257111",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canadian Wheat Board",
"fr": "La Commission canadienne du bl\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2011/9/20/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2011%2F9%2F20%2F"
}
}