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{
    "time": "2013-06-04 10:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Robert Sopuck (Dauphin\u2014Swan River\u2014Marquette, CPC)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3407020\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you very much. Seeing as we only have five minutes I'll try to keep it short, which is difficult for any politician. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3407021\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development conducted\u2014and this is from Mr. Maxwell\u201411 highly critical audits of the previous sustainable development approach between 1997 and 2008. He made the point that at that time the approach to sustainable development across the federal government consisted of individual departmental sustainable development strategies, which made the former sustainable development strategies ineffective and hard to measure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3407022\" data-originallang=\"en\"> How has the current federal sustainable development strategy improved on this?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3407020\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci. \u00c9tant donn\u00e9 que je ne dispose que de cinq minutes, je vais essayer d'\u00eatre concis, mais pour un homme politique c'est difficile. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3407021\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Commissaire \u00e0 l'environnement et au d\u00e9veloppement durable a men\u00e9 \u2014 et je tiens cela de M. Maxwell \u201411 v\u00e9rifications extr\u00eamement critiques des approches qui, en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9veloppement durable, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 retenues en 1997 et 2008. Il avait \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque fait valoir que, selon l'approche en vigueur dans l'ensemble du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, chaque minist\u00e8re \u00e9laborait sa propre strat\u00e9gie, ce qui rendait l'effort global inefficace et faisait que les r\u00e9sultats \u00e9taient difficiles \u00e0 \u00e9valuer. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3407022\" data-originallang=\"en\">La pr\u00e9sente strat\u00e9gie f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de d\u00e9veloppement durable a-t-elle progress\u00e9 par rapport \u00e0 cela?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/environment/41-1/79/robert-sopuck-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/robert-sopuck/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4033/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8054480",
    "document_url": "/committees/environment/41-1/79/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Fenvironment%2F41-1%2F79%2F"
    }
}