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{
"time": "2014-06-05 21:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Dan Albas (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Dan Albas (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du pr\u00e9sident du Conseil du Tr\u00e9sor, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3772214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's intervention today. It sounds to me like she has brought up some good examples, like Germany. Germany, obviously, with its <em>Mittelstand</em> of small and medium-sized manufacturers, is an excellent point. I think she should also reflect on the fact that every country comes to the trade game, so to speak, with a different collection of strengths and weaknesses. While there are certain things we can garner from looking at the German model, its apprenticeship system is quite different, and its whole economy is different in the fact that it is based on geographical areas. Labour is much different in the EU than it is here in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3772215\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like a clarification. Is the member suggesting that we should only be looking at exporting and not trying to bring in imports from other countries?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3772216\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member mentioned David Ricardo. Part of David Ricardo's genius was in recognizing that mercantilism, that very strategy, producing exports and then reducing the amount of imports, does not work to everyone's benefit. What the member I think is advocating is a warmed-over neo-mercantilism. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3772217\" data-originallang=\"en\">Could the member please explain if that is what she is conveying? If not, could she give us a better example?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3772214\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de son intervention aujourd'hui. Je trouve qu'elle a donn\u00e9 de bons exemples, comme celui de l'Allemagne. L'Allemagne est \u00e9videmment un excellent argument, avec son <em>Mittelstand</em>, sa myriade de petites et moyennes entreprises. Je pense que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e devrait aussi r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir au fait que chaque pays se livre au grand jeu du commerce, pour ainsi dire, en comptant sur une collection diff\u00e9rente de forces et de faiblesses. Si nous pouvons nous inspirer du mod\u00e8le allemand \u00e0 certains \u00e9gards, il reste que son syst\u00e8me d'apprentissage est tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rent et son \u00e9conomie dans son ensemble est tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente du fait qu'elle est fond\u00e9e sur des caract\u00e9ristiques g\u00e9ographiques. La main-d'oeuvre est tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne, en comparaison du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3772215\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je voudrais une pr\u00e9cision. La d\u00e9put\u00e9e laisse-t-elle entendre que nous devrions seulement chercher \u00e0 exporter et ne pas tenter d'importer des biens d'autres pays?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3772216\" data-originallang=\"en\">Elle a mentionn\u00e9 David Ricardo. Le g\u00e9nie de David Ricardo tient en partie \u00e0 ce qu'il a su reconna\u00eetre que le mercantilisme, justement cette strat\u00e9gie consistant \u00e0 produire des exportations et \u00e0 r\u00e9duire la quantit\u00e9 d'importations, n'est pas \u00e0 l'avantage de tous. Je pense que ce que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e pr\u00e9conise est une forme r\u00e9chauff\u00e9e de n\u00e9o-mercantilisme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3772217\" data-originallang=\"en\">La d\u00e9put\u00e9e aurait-elle l'obligeance d'expliquer si tel est bien ce qu'elle pr\u00e9conise? Sinon, pourrait-elle nous donner un meilleur exemple?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/6/5/dan-albas-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/dan-albas/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4106/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8406098",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act",
"fr": "Loi sur la croissance \u00e9conomique et la prosp\u00e9rit\u00e9 -- Canada-Honduras"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/6/5/",
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}