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{
"time": "2024-09-23 11:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Dr. Peter Dietsch",
"fr": "M. Peter Dietsch"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8579046\" data-originallang=\"en\">No, that's fine. I've had some time to think about it now. The question was on whether or not greenwashing is more widely spread than the fossil fuel sector. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8579047\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'd say two things. I'd say that there is greenwashing going on in the financial sector too, but there's an explanation for this. As Mark Carney, who you want to invite, I think rightly, to your committee, keeps repeating, financial institutions are very bad at evaluating climate risk. They might actually believe that something is sustainable when it isn't. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8579048\" data-originallang=\"en\">That leads me to the second point, which is that we need a paradigm shift about what's going on. Blaming commercial banks alone would be short-sighted. It's the Bank of Canada that supervises what they do. They lend to fossil fuels. Who gives the Bank of Canada the mandate? The government does. Who elects the government? We do. In a way, we're all in this together. We have to realize that these are political choices that we're making. What's happening in the financial sector is in a way a huge implicit subsidy to the fossil fuel sector. That is not discussed as such.That's what we need to focus on. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8579046\" data-originallang=\"en\">Non, \u00e7a ira. J'ai eu le temps d'y r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir. Vous demandiez si l'\u00e9coblanchiment est plus r\u00e9pandu que dans le secteur des combustibles fossiles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8579047\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je dirai deux choses. Premi\u00e8rement, il y a aussi de l'\u00e9coblanchiment dans le secteur financier, mais il y a une explication \u00e0 cela. Comme Mark Carney, que vous souhaitez inviter, avec raison, selon moi, ne cesse de le r\u00e9p\u00e9ter, les institutions financi\u00e8res font de bien pi\u00e8tres \u00e9valuations du risque climatique. Il se pourrait m\u00eame qu'elles croient que quelque chose est durable quand \u00e7a ne l'est pas. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8579048\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, nous devons changer de paradigme par rapport \u00e0 ce qui se passe. Ne montrer du doigt que les banques commerciales serait faire preuve de peu de clairvoyance. C'est la Banque du Canada qui supervise ce qu'elles font. Elles pr\u00eatent aux exploitants de combustibles fossiles. Qui donne son mandat \u00e0 la Banque du Canada? Le gouvernement. Qui \u00e9lit le gouvernement? Nous. D'une certaine mani\u00e8re, nous sommes tous concern\u00e9s. Nous devons comprendre que ce sont des choix politiques que nous faisons. Ce que fait le secteur financier, c'est en quelque sorte accorder une \u00e9norme subvention implicite au secteur des combustibles fossiles. Or, ce n'est pas discut\u00e9 comme tel, alors que c'est ce sur quoi nous devons nous concentrer.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/environment/44-1/121/dr-peter-dietsch-9/",
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"source_id": "12870785",
"document_url": "/committees/environment/44-1/121/",
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