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{
    "time": "2017-11-30 15:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. M\u00e9lanie Joly (Minister of Canadian Heritage, Lib.)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. M\u00e9lanie Joly (ministre du Patrimoine canadien, Lib.)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5160442\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, we have always been clear on the subject: we value the importance of journalism and every year we help the print media by providing up to $75 million through the Canada periodical fund. As part of our new vision for a creative Canada, we said that we will continue to support local media and we are also going to help local media that are not yet online, meaning those still available in print form, to transition to the digital world since that is how more and more people are accessing the news. We want to make sure that Canadians have access to journalistic information. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5160442\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, nous avons toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 clairs sur le sujet: nous valorisons l'importance du journalisme et, chaque ann\u00e9e, nous aidons la presse \u00e9crite par l'entremise du Fonds du Canada pour les p\u00e9riodiques \u00e0 hauteur de 75 millions de dollars. Dans le contexte de notre nouvelle vision pour un Canada cr\u00e9atif, nous avons dit que nous allons continuer \u00e0 soutenir les m\u00e9dias locaux et nous allons \u00e9galement aider les m\u00e9dias locaux qui ne sont pas d\u00e9j\u00e0 sur le Web, ceux qui sont imprim\u00e9s, \u00e0 faire la transition vers le num\u00e9rique, puisque c'est comme cela que les gens, de plus en plus, acc\u00e8dent \u00e0 du contenu. Nous voulons nous assurer que nos citoyens au Canada ont acc\u00e8s \u00e0 de l'information journalistique.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/11/30/melanie-joly-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/melanie-joly/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4365/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9824509",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Oral Questions",
        "fr": "Questions Orales"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Media Industry",
        "fr": "L'industrie des m\u00e9dias"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/11/30/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2017%2F11%2F30%2F"
    }
}