Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2007-04-17 21:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Libby Davies",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"551281\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78654\" href=\"/politicians/peter-julian/\" title=\"Peter Julian\">Burnaby\u2014New Westminster</a> for his very fulsome question. My quick response would be that maybe the Conservative government members have become as arrogant as the former Liberal government so quickly that they forget the interests of the people they represent. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551282\" data-originallang=\"en\">As for that list the member read off, whether it is the pine beetle infestation in British Columbia, the impact of the softwood lumber agreement and the incredible impact it has had on workers' lives, or this back to work legislation and the impact of rail safety, all of these are issues that affect people in their working lives and affect their families. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551283\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the issues in this labour dispute and strike is the health and safety issue. The hours of work affect not only the workers on the railroad but affect their families too. This is about quality of life, something we hear that the Conservatives believe in supporting. They seem to have forgotten that in British Columbia, as they have across the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551284\" data-originallang=\"en\">Again I think it begs the question as to why this legislation really has been brought in. Is it for a political agenda? Is it to clear the political deck so that the Conservatives can make whatever decision they want if they decide to go for an election?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551285\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This certainly is not being done in the interests of workers, neither those at CN nor any other workers. It is not being done in the interests of British Columbia, because if that were the government's motivation it would have invested its resources, its influence and its political work in making that process work.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Instead, what we seen is that at the earliest opportunity Conservatives opted out to bring in back to work legislation. That is a sign of their failure and their lack of responsibility in making sure that a process that exists could work.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551287\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would agree with the member that the Conservative government has completely let down British Columbians and certainly has let down these workers who are doing their best to make these processes work and to get their legitimate issues addressed. The government has let them down.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"551281\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"78654\" href=\"/politicians/peter-julian/\" title=\"Peter Julian\">Burnaby\u2014New Westminster</a> de sa question exhaustive. Je lui r\u00e9pondrai rapidement que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s du gouvernement conservateur sont devenus aussi arrogants que ceux du gouvernement lib\u00e9ral pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Ils ont eu t\u00f4t fait d'oublier les int\u00e9r\u00eats des \u00e9lecteurs qu'ils repr\u00e9sentent.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551282\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne la liste dont le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a donn\u00e9 lecture, qu'il s'agisse de l'infestation des for\u00eats de la Colombie-Britannique par le dendoctrone du pin, de l'entente sur le bois d'oeuvre et de l'\u00e9norme impact qu'il a eu sur la vie des travailleurs, ou encore de ce projet de loi de retour au travail et de son impact sur la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 ferroviaire, voil\u00e0 autant de questions qui touchent les travailleurs et leurs familles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551283\" data-originallang=\"en\">La sant\u00e9 et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sont un enjeu important de ce conflit de travail et de cette gr\u00e8ve. Les heures de travail touchent directement les travailleurs, mais elles touchent \u00e9galement leurs familles. Il s'agit de leur qualit\u00e9 de vie, un enjeu cher aux conservateurs. On dirait qu'ils ont oubli\u00e9 cela en Colombie-Britannique, comme partout au pays d'ailleurs. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551284\" data-originallang=\"en\">Encore une fois, il faut se demander pourquoi ce projet de projet de loi a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9. S'agit-il d'un enjeu politique? S'agit-il de tourner toutes les cartes politiques, de fa\u00e7on \u00e0 ce que les conservateurs puissent prendre n'importe quelle d\u00e9cision s'ils d\u00e9cident de d\u00e9clencher des \u00e9lections?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551285\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans ce dossier, le gouvernement n'agit certainement pas dans l'int\u00e9r\u00eat des travailleurs du CN, pas plus que dans celui du reste des travailleurs. Il n'agit pas dans l'int\u00e9r\u00eat de la Colombie-Britannique, car si c'\u00e9tait vraiment sa motivation profonde, il aurait investi ses ressources, son influence et son travail politique pour faire fonctionner ce processus.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551286\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au contraire, \u00e0 la premi\u00e8re occasion, les conservateurs ont choisi de pr\u00e9senter un projet de loi de retour au travail. C'est la preuve de leur \u00e9chec. Il n'ont pas \u00e9t\u00e9 suffisamment responsables pour chercher \u00e0 d\u00e9terminer si un processus existant ne pourrait pas fonctionner.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551287\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis d'accord avec le d\u00e9put\u00e9 sur le fait que le gouvernement conservateur a compl\u00e8tement abandonn\u00e9 les habitants de la Colombie-Britannique et ces travailleurs qui font de leur mieux pour assurer le succ\u00e8s de ces processus, pour qu'il soit tenu d\u00fbment compte de leurs revendications l\u00e9gitimes. Le gouvernement les a laiss\u00e9s tomber. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2007/4/17/libby-davies-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/libby-davies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2499/",
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    "source_id": "2009504",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Railway Continuation Act, 2007",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2007/4/17/",
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