Vertaling van "acknowledged a mistake—he didn " (Engels → Frans) :

To say three times in your speech that you're glad the minister acknowledged a mistake—he didn't make a mistake, the ministry didn't make a mistake, and this government didn't make a mistake, because it's followed the process. It's come to this committee, Mr. Chair, we're doing a review, we're acknowledging that the bill, and particularly this part, clause 25, can be improved, and that's what we are doing.
Nous reconnaissons que le projet de loi, et en particulier cette partie, l'article 25, peut être amélioré, et c'est ce que nous faisons.

Why should the defendant be able to invoke, in his defence, the fact that he didn't respect the law because he was induced into making a mistake by an official?
Pourquoi le défendeur pourrait-il invoquer pour sa défense qu'il n'a pas respecté la loi parce qu'il a été induit en erreur par un fonctionnaire?

He is the one who refuses to ever acknowledge his mistakes.
C'est lui qui refuse toujours de reconnaître ses erreurs.

I reject that as being just a little too cute by half. But the question remains, after a minister comes in and says there's been a $122,000 mistake his chief of staff made the mistake, he didn't know about it, he's been properly admonished, he's not even in the office any more, he's gone is this a hanging offence?
Pour être juste envers les contribuables, nous nous devons d'étudier minutieusement un contrat de 122 000 $, mais d'y consacrer un temps proportionnel à l'importance de la question par rapport à toutes nos autres priorités.

We would have preferred to have the Minister of Finance recognize the mistakes of the past and, acknowledge that when he lowered income taxes he targeted first and foremost the very high end incomes, so much so that in the latest two budgets, people earning over $250,000 in Canada, probably not most taxpayers, received a $9,000 tax cut this year, whereas families earning about $40,000 received a $300 tax cut.
On aurait aussi souhaité que le ministre des Finances reconnaisse les erreurs du passé, qu'il reconnaisse que, lorsqu'il a décrété des baisses d'impôt et de taxes, il a d'abord et avant tout ciblé les très hauts revenus, tant et si bien que dans les deux derniers budgets, les Canadiens ayant un revenu de plus de 250 000 $—je ne pense pas que ce soit la majorité des contribuables—se sont vu offrir plus de 9 000 $ de baisses d'impôt dès cette année, alors que les familles ayant un revenu de 40 000 $ environ auront des baisses d'impôt de 300 $.