Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2010-11-15 15:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Michael Broad",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2182405\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2182406\" data-originallang=\"en\">With respect to the first question, in international shipping, as it is described, the ships go all over the world and trade all over the world, so they need to be assured that the laws are fairly standard throughout the world. Through a UN agency called the International Maritime Organization, there are laws made about the operation of ships and the like, and the Canadian government follows the international laws and comes out with their own laws to go along with the international laws.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2182407\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I guess what we're saying is that if we sign an international treaty, this bill, if it goes through as is, may go against the international treaty. The only problem we have is that you could have a situation whereby international law dictates that you must have a certain process or machinery on your ship, we agree to it, and then a month later some other process or equipment comes out that is a bit better. After you've just spent millions of dollars reconfiguring your ship to put on the new stuff, this other equipment becomes available. Could a citizen come up to us and say, \u201cWell, you didn't use the best available technology\u201d? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2182408\" data-originallang=\"en\">You get into situations where you're following international law and following Canadian law and regulation, yet if something changes in the marketplace so that a month later a process comes out that might be a bit better, you can't afford to just change it overnight. I guess that's what we're getting at in that point.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2182405\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2182406\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne la premi\u00e8re question, soit le transport maritime international, comme on l'a expliqu\u00e9, les navires sillonnent le globe et permettent des \u00e9changes commerciaux dans le monde entier; voil\u00e0 pourquoi on doit leur donner l'assurance que les lois sont assez uniformes partout dans le monde. L'Organisation maritime internationale, qui fait partie de l'ONU, \u00e9labore des lois sur l'exploitation des navires et tout le reste; le gouvernement canadien observe les lois internationales et instaure ses propres lois en compl\u00e9ment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2182407\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce que nous voulons dire, c'est qu'advenant la signature d'un trait\u00e9 international, le projet de loi, s'il est adopt\u00e9, risque de ne pas y \u00eatre conforme. Le seul probl\u00e8me, c'est qu'on pourrait se retrouver dans une situation o\u00f9 la loi internationale oblige l'adoption d'un certain processus ou l'installation d'une certaine machinerie \u00e0 bord de notre navire puis, un mois plus tard, un autre processus ou un autre \u00e9quipement un peu plus efficace voit le jour. On vient de d\u00e9penser des millions de dollars pour reconfigurer notre navire et le doter de nouveaux outils, et voil\u00e0 qu'un autre \u00e9quipement est mis \u00e0 notre disposition. Un citoyen pourrait-il alors nous reprocher de ne pas avoir utilis\u00e9 la meilleure technologie disponible?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2182408\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bref, on a beau respecter la loi internationale ainsi que les lois et les r\u00e8glements canadiens, mais si quelque chose change sur le march\u00e9 \u2014 par exemple, si on se retrouve, un mois plus tard, avec un processus l\u00e9g\u00e8rement am\u00e9lior\u00e9 \u2014 on n'aura pas les moyens de l'adopter du jour au lendemain. C'est le point que nous essayons de faire valoir. </p>"
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    "url": "/committees/environment/40-3/34/michael-broad-2/",
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