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{
"time": "2016-06-14 12:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Nathan Cullen",
"fr": "M. Nathan Cullen"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4441262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Sure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4441263\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Dow recently lost a case in Louisiana on asbestos. You had to pay out a $6-million fine. There's a bit of a contradiction. This came up in testimony earlier as well, that when we're looking at toxics, looking at something like asbestos, where Dow and other companies have persistently fought the banning and use of asbestos in the workplace, it provides something of a contradiction to your earlier testimony, I suppose, about responsible care and, you know, we advise our children to look both ways.... We have a known carcinogen that remains in the Canadian marketplace continuing to do harm. I don't understand the company's stated goals of being more responsible, given its litigation record and its lobbying record against the EPA, for example, to continue to allow asbestos to be used in things like brake pads and other products.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4441262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bien s\u00fbr.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4441263\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Dow a r\u00e9cemment perdu un proc\u00e8s en Louisiane concernant l'utilisation de l'amiante. Vous avez d\u00fb payer une amende de 6 millions de dollars. Il y a une certaine contradiction. Voil\u00e0 quelque chose qui est aussi ressorti des t\u00e9moignages. Lorsque l'on examine cette question des produits toxiques, comme l'amiante, et que l'on regarde comment Dow et d'autres soci\u00e9t\u00e9s se sont toujours battues pour emp\u00eacher l'interdiction de ce produit sur les lieux de travail, on constate qu'il a une certaine contradiction avec ce que vous avez affirm\u00e9 tout \u00e0 l'heure au sujet de la gestion responsable et du fait que nous avertissons nos enfants de regarder des deux c\u00f4t\u00e9s... Nous avons une substance canc\u00e9rog\u00e8ne nocive qui continue d'\u00eatre pr\u00e9sente sur le march\u00e9 canadien. Je ne comprends pas cet objectif mis de l'avant par votre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u2014 celui d'\u00eatre plus responsable \u2014, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 la feuille de route que vous avez en mati\u00e8re de litiges, de lobbying contre la Loi canadienne sur la protection de l\u2019environnement pour faire accepter, par exemple, que l'amiante puisse continuer \u00e0 \u00eatre utilis\u00e9 dans des choses comme les sabots de frein et d'autres produits.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/environment/42-1/23/nathan-cullen-9/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/nathan-cullen/",
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"source_id": "8995343",
"document_url": "/committees/environment/42-1/23/",
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}