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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2007-04-17 19:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Denise Savoie",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"551010\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is very difficult to speculate on what might have motivated the government's draconian decision to act in this way but, as I said earlier, it seems to be very difficult for recent governments, including this one, to understand the need for triple bottom line decisions, decisions that are based on meeting our economic needs, on ensuring that social rights are protected for ordinary Canadian families that are squeezed increasingly despite the high profits of these companies, and, of course, ensuring environmental rights that we owe to our children.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551011\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think the basis of this decision is a result of a lack of wisdom and an increasing corporatism that seems to fulfill the needs of corporations. It perhaps is a misguided belief that eventually, if the corporations make enough profits, the benefits might trickle down. However, they never have. I am as puzzled by this decision as my colleague.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"551010\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, on peut difficilement conjecturer sur ce qui peut bien avoir pouss\u00e9 le gouvernement \u00e0 prendre une mesure aussi draconienne, mais, comme je le disais tout \u00e0 l'heure, les gouvernements, y compris le gouvernement actuel, semblent depuis quelque temps avoir beaucoup de mal \u00e0 saisir la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de prendre des d\u00e9cisions en conformit\u00e9 avec le concept de triple bilan, c'est-\u00e0-dire des d\u00e9cisions ax\u00e9es sur nos besoins \u00e9conomiques, sur la protection des droits sociaux des familles canadiennes ordinaires qui se sentent de plus en plus coinc\u00e9es pendant que les profits de ces soci\u00e9t\u00e9s augmentent et sur le respect des droits environnementaux que l'on doit \u00e0 nos enfants, bien s\u00fbr.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551011\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je pense que cette d\u00e9cision s'explique par un manque de sagacit\u00e9 et par une tendance croissante au corporatisme qui r\u00e9pond, semble-t-il, aux besoins des entreprises. C'est peut-\u00eatre que l'on croit \u00e0 tort que, si les entreprises g\u00e9n\u00e8rent plus de profits, cela finira par avoir un effet d'entra\u00eenement. Or, cela n'est jamais arriv\u00e9. Cette d\u00e9cision me laisse aussi perplexe que mon coll\u00e8gue.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/4/17/denise-savoie-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denise-savoie/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/561/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2009419",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Railway Continuation Act, 2007",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/4/17/",
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}