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{
"time": "2006-05-16 13:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Peggy Nash (Parkdale\u2014High Park, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7024\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I want to draw to the hon. member's attention the statement by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, which conducted a comprehensive review of the effects of pesticides on human health. Following this review, the College of Family Physicians said:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7025\" data-originallang=\"en\"> --the review shows consistent links to serious illnesses such as cancer, reproductive problems and neurological diseases, among others. The study also shows that children are particularly vulnerable to pesticides. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7026\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I know the hon. member's colleague likes to blame the victim, that it is all about diet and anti-depressants and weight, and he says that over the last 10 years there is not a large increase in cancer, but I suggest that we go back to before the beginning of the use of pesticides, that is, well prior to Rachel Carson's book, <em>Silent Spring</em>. We would have to go back to a pre-pesticide era to really measure the extent of the effects of these carcinogens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7027\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why does the member advocate rights for pesticides, that is, that they are innocent until proven guilty, rather than agreeing with the Canadian Cancer Society, the Ontario College of Family Physicians and many other reputable scientists in saying that we will weigh in on the side of health and on the side of our children?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7024\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'attire l'attention du d\u00e9put\u00e9 sur la d\u00e9claration du Ontario College of Family Physicians, qui a effectu\u00e9 une \u00e9tude exhaustive sur les effets des pesticides sur la sant\u00e9 humaine. Au terme de cette \u00e9tude, l'organisme a fait la d\u00e9claration suivante:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7025\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] l'\u00e9tude r\u00e9v\u00e8le l'existence de liens \u00e9vidents avec certaines maladies graves dont le cancer, les troubles reproductifs et les maladies neurologiques. Elle montre en outre que les enfants sont particuli\u00e8rement vuln\u00e9rables aux pesticides. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"7026\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je sais que le coll\u00e8gue du d\u00e9put\u00e9 se pla\u00eet \u00e0 bl\u00e2mer les victimes et soutient que c'est une question de r\u00e9gime alimentaire, de consommation d'anti-d\u00e9presseurs et d'ob\u00e9sit\u00e9. Il dit \u00e9galement que, au cours des dix derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, l'incidence du cancer n'a que peu augment\u00e9. Personnellement, je sugg\u00e8re de revenir \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode pr\u00e9c\u00e9dant l'utilisation des pesticides, soit, bien avant la publication de l'ouvrage de Rachel Carson, intitul\u00e9 <em>Silent Spring</em>. Il faut revenir \u00e0 une \u00e9poque ant\u00e9rieure \u00e0 l'utilisation des pesticides pour vraiment mesurer l'ampleur des effets de ces produits canc\u00e9rig\u00e8nes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7027\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le d\u00e9put\u00e9 soutient--il le droit \u00e0 l'utilisation des pesticides, en disant qu'ils sont inoffensifs, tant que leur nocivit\u00e9 n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 prouv\u00e9e, au lieu de se rallier \u00e0 l'opinion de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne du cancer, du Ontario College of Family Physicians et de bien d'autres autorit\u00e9s scientifiques fiables et d'opter pour la sant\u00e9 et pour le bien-\u00eatre des enfants? </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/5/16/peggy-nash-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/peggy-nash/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/522/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1540142",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Pesticides",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/5/16/",
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}