{"time": "1994-02-11 11:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Nick Discepola (Vaudreuil)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw the House's attention to a project developed by a group of business people in my riding. The project is important to farmers, both from a financial and an ecological standpoint.</p>\n<p>The project calls for the construction in our region of an ethanol fuel plant with a production capacity of 150 million litres.</p>\n<p>Ethanol is a clean, ecologically safe fuel and a plant with this capacity would use roughly 385,000 tonnes of corn every year, or 20 per cent of current production.</p>\n<p>The arrival on the scene of this industry in the riding would create 225 direct and indirect jobs, 325 jobs associated with the raw material itself and 600 construction-related jobs.</p>\n<p>In order for ethanol to become an economical fuel alternative, the tax on ethanol fuel must be removed. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister of Finance to look into this matter and to consider this course of action in order to promote similar projects across Canada.</p>", "fr": ""}, "url": "/debates/1994/2/11/nick-discepola-1/", "politician_url": "/politicians/3845/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3326/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "", "h1": {"en": "Statements By Members", "fr": ""}, "h2": {"en": "Ethanol Fuel", "fr": ""}, "document_url": "/debates/1994/2/11/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F1994%2F2%2F11%2F"}}