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speech (committee meeting) resource
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{
"time": "2016-11-22 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Prof. Lynda Collins",
"fr": "Mme Lynda Collins"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4675330\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think it's an important piece too. I would just say, look to international experience. We're actually only one of 12 countries in the entire world that doesn't codify environmental rights. In fact, the sky has not fallen. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4675331\" data-originallang=\"en\">The thing about Canada, of course, is that we pay for health care, so it doesn't make any economic sense in Canada to allow serious public health problems to continue. You're not externalizing those costs. The government is on the hook for those costs. It's way cheaper to prevent the health damage in the first place. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4675330\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je crois qu'il s'agit \u00e9galement d'un \u00e9l\u00e9ment important. Je dirais seulement d'observer ce qui se fait \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle internationale. En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, nous sommes le seul de 12 pays au monde qui ne codifient pas les droits environnementaux. En fait, le ciel n'est tomb\u00e9 sur la t\u00eate de personne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4675331\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au Canada, bien s\u00fbr, le gouvernement couvre les frais de soins de sant\u00e9 alors il n'est pas logique sur le plan \u00e9conomique de ne pas r\u00e9gler les graves probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9 publique. On n'externalise pas les co\u00fbts. Le gouvernement en est responsable. Il co\u00fbte bien moins cher de pr\u00e9venir en amont les dommages \u00e0 la sant\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/environment/42-1/37/prof-lynda-collins-18/",
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"source_id": "9253291",
"document_url": "/committees/environment/42-1/37/",
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