{"time": "2007-05-17 11:30:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Nathan Cullen", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"669484\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the roles of Finance is looking to the future of the Canadian economy, making predictions with greater uncertainty as you go further out, regarding both the potential benefits and threats to the Canadian economy. If one of the leading current threats to the global economy, identified by countries around the world, is an increase in global temperatures or an increase in the variability of weather, and so on, why have we not yet engaged, as a country that is very dependent on natural resource extraction, in that type of analysis?</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"669484\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un des r\u00f4les du minist\u00e8re des Finances est d'examiner l\u2019avenir de l'\u00e9conomie canadienne, de faire des pr\u00e9visions dont le degr\u00e9 d\u2019impr\u00e9cision augmente \u00e0 mesure que l\u2019on s\u2019\u00e9loigne du moment pr\u00e9sent, et de tenir compte des menaces et des retomb\u00e9es potentielles pour l\u2019\u00e9conomie du pays. Si, \u00e0 l\u2019heure actuelle, l'une des plus importantes menaces \u00e0 l'\u00e9conomie mondiale, de l\u2019avis de bien des pays du monde, est le r\u00e9chauffement de la plan\u00e8te ou la variabilit\u00e9 accrue du climat, et ainsi de suite, pourquoi ne nous sommes-nous pas encore engag\u00e9s, en tant que pays fortement d\u00e9pendant de l\u2019extraction des ressources naturelles, \u00e0 faire ce type d'analyse?</p>"}, "url": "/committees/environment/39-1/60/nathan-cullen-11/", "politician_url": "/politicians/nathan-cullen/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1287/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "2099446", "document_url": "/committees/environment/39-1/60/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fenvironment%2F39-1%2F60%2F"}}