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{
"time": "2013-06-12 20:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Charlie Angus",
"fr": "M. Charlie Angus"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3405488\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the issues are very serious. Part of it is this new globalized world. We have allowed our manufacturing sector to be dismantled and shipped off to all manner of sweatshops. I go into all the dollar stores and I see all of the products that are coming in.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3405489\" data-originallang=\"en\">The ability to create bootleg products and move them in en masse has become very easy. The fact that the wiring might not be proper and might be put in a child's room, and the fact that there are ladders that look North American but might not meet the standards are the issues. It is also because we are now dealing with a much larger globalized economy. Our manufacturing base has been moved offshore. We do not have the ability to ensure basic standards are met.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3405490\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is not just in the creation of counterfeit goods. We see it with the horrific death toll in Bangladesh from the products that are being sold in Loblaws and Your Independent Grocer. All those cheap clothes are being made and sold and lives are being lost doing that because there are no oversight provisions. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3405491\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have not lost; we have given up. We have given away our ability to maintain an effective and good manufacturing sector. The devil comes in along with the cheaper prices. We are leaving it to our border guards to try to find these counterfeit products, but they are not going to be able to get through it. It does put people at risk.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3405488\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les probl\u00e8mes sont tr\u00e8s graves. Cela tient en partie \u00e0 la mondialisation. Nous avons laiss\u00e9 notre secteur manufacturier \u00eatre d\u00e9mantel\u00e9 et relocalis\u00e9 dans une foule d'ateliers clandestins. Dans tous les magasins \u00e0 un dollar, je vois une foule de produits qui en proviennent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3405489\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est devenu tr\u00e8s facile de cr\u00e9er des produits contrefaits et de les transporter en masse. Mais que fait-on si les fils ne sont pas bien install\u00e9s? Si ces objets se retrouvent dans une chambre d'enfant? Ou encore si des \u00e9chelles qui ont l'air nord-am\u00e9ricaines ne respectent pas nos normes? C'est aussi parce que nous avons maintenant affaire \u00e0 une \u00e9conomie mondialis\u00e9e d'une envergure beaucoup plus grande. Notre base manufacturi\u00e8re a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9e outre-mer. Nous n'avons pas la capacit\u00e9 de garantir que des normes minimales sont respect\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3405490\" data-originallang=\"en\">On ne parle pas seulement de produits contrefaits. Que dire du co\u00fbt \u00e9pouvantable en vies humaines des produits fabriqu\u00e9s au Bangladesh et vendus chez Loblaws et Your Independent Grocer? Tous ces v\u00eatements bon march\u00e9 sont fabriqu\u00e9s et vendus et des gens perdent la vie en les fabriquant parce qu'il n'y a pas de contr\u00f4le et de surveillance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3405491\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous n'avons pas perdu; nous avons abandonn\u00e9. Nous avons abandonn\u00e9 notre capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 maintenir un secteur de la fabrication efficace et bien portant. Les prix r\u00e9duits sont un cadeau du diable. Nous confions \u00e0 nos gardes-fronti\u00e8res la responsabilit\u00e9 de rep\u00e9rer les produits contrefaits, mais ils ne pourront pas y arriver. Nous mettons des gens en danger.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/6/12/charlie-angus-10/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8078323",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Combating Counterfeit Products Act",
"fr": "Loi visant \u00e0 combattre la contrefa\u00e7on de produits"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/6/12/",
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}