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{
"time": "2021-06-16 17:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Lisa Gue",
"fr": "Mme Lisa Gue"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6834496\" data-originallang=\"en\"> That's an important question, and I think good guidance for the committee to give the government in developing the national strategy. Place-based impacts are, as you say, very important and probably what comes to mind first, but certainly climate change has effects that fall in the same category of environmental racism.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6834497\" data-originallang=\"en\">There are other examples as well, and I know I don't have too much time, but briefly, for example, recent research looking at air quality in Canada's major cities finds consistently that the worst air quality is in racialized neighbourhoods. I think that is looking at the federal jurisdiction to solve some of these problems. In part, what the systematic collection of data and the strategy have to offer is to bring a focus onto these disproportionate impacts, so that decision-making goes beyond consideration of general population risks and really is able to understand the risks to specific populations that are most affected.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6834496\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est une question importante, et je pense que le Comit\u00e9 devrait donner de bonnes directives au gouvernement pour l'\u00e9laboration de la strat\u00e9gie nationale. Les r\u00e9percussions locales sont, comme vous le dites, tr\u00e8s importantes et sont probablement ce qui vient \u00e0 l'esprit en premier, mais il est certain que les changements climatiques ont des effets qui entrent dans la m\u00eame cat\u00e9gorie de racisme environnemental.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6834497\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a aussi d'autres exemples, et je sais que je n'ai pas beaucoup de temps, mais bri\u00e8vement, par exemple, une recherche r\u00e9cente sur la qualit\u00e9 de l'air dans les grandes villes du Canada r\u00e9v\u00e8le syst\u00e9matiquement que la pire qualit\u00e9 de l'air se trouve dans les quartiers racialis\u00e9s. Je pense qu'il faut s'adresser \u00e0 la comp\u00e9tence f\u00e9d\u00e9rale pour r\u00e9soudre certains de ces probl\u00e8mes. En partie, ce que la collecte syst\u00e9matique de donn\u00e9es et la strat\u00e9gie ont \u00e0 offrir, c'est de mettre l'accent sur ces r\u00e9percussions disproportionn\u00e9es, afin que la prise de d\u00e9cision aille au\u2011del\u00e0 de la consid\u00e9ration des risques pour la population g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et soit vraiment en mesure de comprendre les risques pour les populations pr\u00e9cises qui sont les plus touch\u00e9es.</p>"
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"url": "/committees/environment/43-2/40/lisa-gue-11/",
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