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{
"time": "2006-09-26 18:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Nathan Cullen",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"62618\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the need is for this government to come forward and come clean on plans. In particular, I will ask the parliamentary secretary to speak specifically to the need for confirmed and fixed targets to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in both the short and the long term. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"62619\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the Conservative government be willing to commit to Canadians here this evening that, first, he said climate change is in fact happening. I am not sure whether he was willing to admit that it was caused by human activity. This is an important distinction that many climate change doubters will profess. They will say that climate change is happening but it has been happening for thousands of years. It is nothing to worry about, business as usual. Will the parliamentary secretary confirm that in fact humans are participating and accelerating climate change?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"62620\" data-originallang=\"en\">Second, will he be able to confirm to us this evening that whatever plans his government has been formulating, and they have claimed to have a plan for more than a year and half, so time has been available, that they will commit to short and long term targets to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in this country?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"62618\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le gouvernement doit faire preuve d'honn\u00eatet\u00e9 lorsqu'il s'agit de ses plans. J'aimerais que le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire nous en dise davantage sur la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'\u00e9tablir des objectifs fixes afin de r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions de dioxyde de carbone \u00e0 court et \u00e0 long terme.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"62619\" data-originallang=\"en\">Premi\u00e8rement, le gouvernement conservateur conc\u00e9dera-t-il ici, ce soir, aux Canadiens que les changements climatiques sont une r\u00e9alit\u00e9? J'ignore s'il veut admettre qu'ils sont caus\u00e9s par l'activit\u00e9 humaine. C'est une importante distinction sur laquelle se rabattent souvent ceux qui sont sceptiques \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard des changements climatiques. Ils admettront leur existence, mais diront qu'ils existent depuis des milliers d'ann\u00e9es. Ils ne voient donc aucune raison de s'inqui\u00e9ter et font comme si de rien n'\u00e9tait. Le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire admettra-t-il que les humains pr\u00e9cipitent les changements climatiques?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"62620\" data-originallang=\"en\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, sera-t-il en mesure de nous confirmer, ce soir, que le plan que son gouvernement pr\u00e9tend avoir dress\u00e9 il y a plus d'un an et demi comporte des objectifs \u00e0 court et \u00e0 long terme pour r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions de dioxyde de carbone dans notre pays?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/9/26/nathan-cullen-10/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/nathan-cullen/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1287/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1655858",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": ""
},
"h3": {
"en": "The Environment",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/9/26/",
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}