Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2014-10-20 17:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gerald Keddy",
        "fr": "M. Gerald Keddy"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3860553\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Ms. Cobden from the Canadian Climate Forum, you talked about building in climatic resilience and discouraging construction in flood plains. I would have thought it would be illegal in Canada, as it is in most municipalities, to build on a flood plain, quite frankly. I realize that maybe in southern Manitoba it's all flood plain and they're going to continue to build there, but a lot of mitigation has already occurred.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860554\" data-originallang=\"en\">There's always a short-term view that's immediate, but there's also a long-term view. Maybe Mr. Orb from the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities would speak on this as well.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860555\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The long-term view in Nova Scotia, quite frankly, is that the ocean is getting higher\u2014there's no question about it\u2014but we suffer from a dual problem, because the land is actually slipping. The land is sinking as the ocean rises. How much of this, in a situation such as this, can be the responsibility of any level of government?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860556\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I'll go back to the long-term planning. Is it the job of the federal government to come in with disaster relief money in every single case when we know, by every measure, that we will have a problem in oceanfront property in Atlantic Canada, for instance? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860557\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Brison would be interested in this question, I'm sure.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3860553\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame Cobden, du Forum canadien du climat, vous avez indiqu\u00e9 qu'il fallait encourager la r\u00e9silience climatique et d\u00e9courager toute construction dans les zones propices aux inondations. Pour \u00eatre honn\u00eate, je croyais qu'il \u00e9tait ill\u00e9gal au Canada, dans la plupart des municipalit\u00e9s, de construire sur des plaines inondables. Je comprends que dans le Sud du Manitoba, la plupart des plaines peuvent \u00eatre inond\u00e9es et on va continuer d'y construire des immeubles, mais beaucoup de mesures d'att\u00e9nuation ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 prises.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860554\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a toujours une vision \u00e0 court terme, o\u00f9 il faut agir dans l'imm\u00e9diat, mais il y a aussi une vision \u00e0 long terme. Peut-\u00eatre que M. Orb, de la Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, pourrait nous en parler \u00e9galement. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860555\" data-originallang=\"en\">La vision \u00e0 long terme, en Nouvelle-\u00c9cosse, c'est que le niveau de la mer monte \u2014 il n'y a pas de doute l\u00e0-dessus \u2014, mais nous nous retrouvons confront\u00e9e \u00e0 un double probl\u00e8me, en raison de l'affaissement des terres dans la r\u00e9gion. Le niveau des terres baisse par rapport \u00e0 la mer. Par cons\u00e9quent, dans quelle mesure cela rel\u00e8ve-t-il de la responsabilit\u00e9 d'un ordre de gouvernement? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860556\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vais revenir \u00e0 la planification \u00e0 long terme. Est-ce le mandat du gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de trouver des fonds, chaque fois, pour les secours en cas de catastrophe quand tout indique que nous aurons un probl\u00e8me avec les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s au bord de la mer dans le Canada atlantique, par exemple?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3860557\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis certain que M. Brison serait curieux d'entendre la r\u00e9ponse.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/41-2/49/gerald-keddy-10/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gerald-keddy/",
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    "source_id": "8474004",
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