Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2024-05-23 16:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Laurel Collins (Victoria, NDP)",
        "fr": "Mme Laurel Collins (Victoria, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8444956\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444957\" data-originallang=\"en\">I guess I want to start off by addressing one of the comments that was made by the witnesses around climate hysterics.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444958\" data-originallang=\"en\">Hysteria refers to something that is wildly emotional. It comes from the Greek word for womb\u2014of the womb. It is used in ancient Greek to refer to things associated with women. I hope you'll forgive me if I get emotional. Climate emergencies are not gender-neutral. The degradation of ecosystems disproportionally impacts women and girls, and I am wildly emotional. This is the existential crisis of our time. To hear that asking for high ambition is climate hysteria makes we wildly emotional\u2014absolutely.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444959\" data-originallang=\"en\">When I think about my womb, the two children I bore from that womb and what future we are leaving them, I am wildly emotional. It's not surprising to hear this from someone who has written articles that are pro-life. I think that we need to think about the intersection of gender and the climate crisis. I hope that the people around this table and the people listening will refrain from using language like \u201cclimate hysteria\u201d. We are facing a \u201cclimate emergency\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444960\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'm going to start off my questions with Mr. Clark. I appreciated your comments about the existential crisis that we're facing. A handful of insurance companies are already setting net-zero goals and climate transition plans. I'm curious how legislative and regulatory mechanisms support insurance companies already doing this work. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444961\" data-originallang=\"en\">How do we get the ones who aren't\u2014the majority, who haven't committed to net-zero goals\u2014headed in that direction? </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8444956\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444957\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais commencer par r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 l'un des commentaires formul\u00e9s par un t\u00e9moin au sujet de l'hyst\u00e9rie climatique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444958\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le mot hyst\u00e9rie fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 quelque chose de tr\u00e8s \u00e9motif. Il vient du mot grec d\u00e9signant l'ut\u00e9rus. Il est utilis\u00e9 en grec ancien pour d\u00e9signer les choses associ\u00e9es aux femmes. J'esp\u00e8re que vous me pardonnerez si je suis \u00e9mue. Les urgences climatiques ne sont pas neutres sur le plan du genre. La d\u00e9gradation des \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes a des r\u00e9percussions disproportionn\u00e9es sur les femmes et les filles, et je suis tr\u00e8s \u00e9motive. C'est la crise existentielle de notre \u00e9poque. D'entendre que d'exiger de grandes ambitions, c'est faire preuve d'hyst\u00e9rie climatique me rend tr\u00e8s \u00e9motive \u2014 absolument.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444959\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque je pense \u00e0 mon ut\u00e9rus, aux deux enfants que j'ai port\u00e9s dans cet ut\u00e9rus et \u00e0 l'avenir que nous leur laissons, je suis tr\u00e8s \u00e9mue. Ce n'est pas surprenant d'entendre cela de la part de quelqu'un qui a \u00e9crit des articles pro-vie. Je pense que nous devons r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir \u00e0 l'intersection entre les genres et la crise climatique. J'esp\u00e8re que les gens autour de cette table et les gens qui nous \u00e9coutent s'abstiendront d'utiliser des formules comme \u00ab hyst\u00e9rie climatique \u00bb. Nous faisons face \u00e0 une \u00ab urgence climatique \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444960\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais commencer par poser mes questions \u00e0 M. Clark. J'ai appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 vos commentaires sur la crise existentielle \u00e0 laquelle nous faisons face. Une poign\u00e9e de compagnies d'assurances \u00e9tablissent d\u00e9j\u00e0 des objectifs de carboneutralit\u00e9 et des plans de transition climatique. J'aimerais savoir comment les m\u00e9canismes l\u00e9gislatifs et r\u00e9glementaires appuient les compagnies d'assurances qui font d\u00e9j\u00e0 ce travail. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8444961\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment pouvons-nous amener celles qui ne se sont pas engag\u00e9es \u00e0 atteindre des objectifs de carboneutralit\u00e9, c'est\u2011\u00e0\u2011dire la majorit\u00e9, \u00e0 emprunter cette voie? </p>"
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    "url": "/committees/environment/44-1/109/laurel-collins-1/",
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