Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2021-05-12 17:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mrs. Cathy McLeod",
        "fr": "Mme Cathy McLeod"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6732240\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732241\" data-originallang=\"en\">I've noticed what I would say is a bit of a disturbing pattern. On GHG emissions, you committed to meeting certain targets and, of course, we don't meet them. You committed to planting two billion trees. The last time I looked, there wasn't one in the ground yet.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732242\" data-originallang=\"en\">I want to bring up another example. In 2016, to great fanfare\u2014and we're a key group that are part of it\u2014we committed to the Kigali amendment to the Montreal protocol, to massively scale down Canadian hydrofluorocarbon emissions. Companies were given five years to comply with new recommendations, and most did. However, your government granted last-minute, under-the-table exemptions to industrial manufacturers like DuPont, which didn't comply with these regulations. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732243\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada's jobs, of course, are important, but so is a level playing field. These exemptions allow up to 1.8 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions. That's the equivalent of 400,000 cars put back on the road this year. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732244\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why do you think those exemptions were appropriate?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6732240\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732241\" data-originallang=\"en\">J\u2019ai remarqu\u00e9 une tendance un peu troublante. En ce qui concerne les \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre, vous vous \u00eates engag\u00e9s \u00e0 atteindre certaines cibles et, bien s\u00fbr, nous ne les atteignons pas. Vous vous \u00eates engag\u00e9s \u00e0 planter deux milliards d\u2019arbres. La derni\u00e8re fois que j\u2019ai v\u00e9rifi\u00e9, il n\u2019y en avait pas encore un en terre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732242\" data-originallang=\"en\">J\u2019aimerais donner un autre exemple. En 2016, en grande pompe \u2014 et nous sommes un groupe cl\u00e9 qui en avons fait partie \u2014, nous nous sommes engag\u00e9s \u00e0 apporter la modification de Kigali au Protocole de Montr\u00e9al afin de r\u00e9duire massivement les \u00e9missions d\u2019hydrofluorocarbures canadiens. Les entreprises ont eu cinq ans pour se conformer aux nouvelles recommandations, et la plupart l\u2019ont fait. Cependant, votre gouvernement a accord\u00e9 des d\u00e9rogations de derni\u00e8re minute, sous la table, \u00e0 des fabricants industriels comme DuPont, qui ne respectaient pas ces r\u00e8glements. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732243\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bien s\u00fbr, les emplois au Canada sont importants, mais les r\u00e8gles du jeu sont les m\u00eames pour tous. Ces d\u00e9rogations autorisent une production jusqu\u2019\u00e0 1,8 million de tonnes m\u00e9triques d\u2019\u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre en \u00e9quivalent CO2. C\u2019est l\u2019\u00e9quivalent de 400 000 voitures remises sur les routes cette ann\u00e9e. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6732244\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi estimez-vous justifi\u00e9 d'avoir accord\u00e9 ces d\u00e9rogations?</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/environment/43-2/31/cathy-mcleod-2/",
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    "document_url": "/committees/environment/43-2/31/",
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