Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2014-11-25 09:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Robert Sopuck (Dauphin\u2014Swan River\u2014Marquette, CPC)",
        "fr": "M. Robert Sopuck (Dauphin\u2014Swan River\u2014Marquette, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3914503\" data-originallang=\"en\">I'm very pleased to talk with you today. One of my positions is chair of the Conservative hunting and angling caucus. My vice-chair, Mr. Leef, is here as well. Our caucus is fixated on protecting and preserving our hunting, angling, and trapping way of life.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3914504\" data-originallang=\"en\">I have a quick comment on the predator control topic which Mr. Cleary brought up. A recent report came out showing that the wolf kill in Alberta is having a measurable and positive effect on woodland caribou numbers. I think the science is there and getting better in terms of predator control to restore the balance. I think that's what we were talking about, restoring the balance.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3914505\" data-originallang=\"en\">I spent a fair bit of time in my previous life fighting the animal rights groups. You certainly recall the Liberal bill, Bill C-15B, which thankfully didn't see the light of day, that would have given animals rights. In terms of the sealing industry being used as a fundraising tool for radical animal rights groups, where these people wilfully distort the conversation on the seal hunt by using pictures of whitecoat seals which haven't been hunted since the 1980s, can you speak to this dishonest approach employed by these groups?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3914503\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis tr\u00e8s heureux de vous parler aujourd'hui. Je suis actuellement pr\u00e9sident du caucus conservateur de la chasse et de la p\u00eache. Le vice-pr\u00e9sident, M. Leef, est ici \u00e9galement. Notre caucus tient \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger et \u00e0 pr\u00e9server nos activit\u00e9s de chasse, de p\u00eache \u00e0 la ligne et de pi\u00e9geage. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3914504\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai un bref commentaire \u00e0 faire sur la question du contr\u00f4le des pr\u00e9dateurs, dont a parl\u00e9 M. Cleary. Un rapport publi\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment r\u00e9v\u00e8le que l'abattage de loups en Alberta a une incidence importante et positive sur les troupeaux de caribous des bois. Je crois qu'il y a de meilleures donn\u00e9es scientifiques au sujet du contr\u00f4le des pr\u00e9dateurs, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9tablir l'\u00e9quilibre. C'est de cela dont il \u00e9tait question: r\u00e9tablir l'\u00e9quilibre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3914505\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ai pass\u00e9 beaucoup de temps, dans mon ancienne vie, \u00e0 lutter contre les groupes de d\u00e9fense des droits des animaux. Vous vous rappelez sans doute le projet de loi lib\u00e9ral C-15B, qui n'a heureusement pas \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9 et qui aurait conf\u00e9r\u00e9 des droits aux animaux. Pouvez-vous nous parler des groupes radicaux de d\u00e9fense des droits des animaux qui utilisent de fa\u00e7on malhonn\u00eate l'industrie de la chasse au phoque comme outil de financement et qui faussent d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment le d\u00e9bat sur la chasse au phoque en montrant des photos de blanchons, alors que la chasse au blanchon est interdite depuis les ann\u00e9es 1980?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/fisheries/41-2/30/robert-sopuck-1/",
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    "source_id": "8518960",
    "document_url": "/committees/fisheries/41-2/30/",
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