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{
"time": "2007-04-17 21:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Peter Julian (Burnaby\u2014New Westminster, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"551275\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the intervention from the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78973\" href=\"/politicians/libby-davies/\" title=\"Libby Davies\">Vancouver East</a>. She comes from British Columbia, as I do, and we have seen the government systematically betray British Columbians with dozens of broken promises. We saw it with the softwood sellout and hundreds of lost jobs in British Columbia as well as half a billion dollars in illegally taken tariffs given away just as a gift to the Bush administration.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551276\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservatives applauded the hundreds of lost jobs, which shows how seriously the Conservatives take British Columbia. In fact, the <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">Minister of Finance</a> stood up on budget day and said that his Conservative Canada goes from the Alberta Rockies right through to Newfoundland and Labrador. What he said was insulting to any British Columbian.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551277\" data-originallang=\"en\">Last week, on the pine beetle epidemic, we heard the <a data-HoCid=\"78751\" href=\"/politicians/gary-lunn/\" title=\"Gary Lunn\">Minister of Natural Resources</a> saying quite simply that the pine beetle epidemic that has devastated the interior of British Columbia was \u201cnot a priority\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551278\" data-originallang=\"en\">Now we have the issue of rail safety, which British Columbians have been concerned about for years as we have seen the loss of life and the environmental devastation. British Columbia has been more profoundly impacted by CN's irresponsibility than any other province. British Columbians have said repeatedly that rail safety has to be a priority, and the Conservative government, like the previous Liberal government, has completely ignored British Columbians' concerns.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551279\" data-originallang=\"en\">We have here tonight a case of the Conservative government choosing CN management and giving it a blank cheque to impose any sort of working conditions on its workers while very clearly the employees of CN have signalled to all parliamentarians that safety has to be addressed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551280\" data-originallang=\"en\">My question for the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78973\" href=\"/politicians/libby-davies/\" title=\"Libby Davies\">Vancouver East</a> is quite simple. Why does the Conservative government not get the fact that British Columbians' concerns have to be taken into consideration?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"551275\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'appr\u00e9cie l'intervention de la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"78973\" href=\"/politicians/libby-davies/\" title=\"Libby Davies\">Vancouver-Est</a>. Elle vient de la Colombie-Britannique, tout comme moi, et nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moins de la trahison syst\u00e9matique des habitants de cette province de la part de ce gouvernement qui a viol\u00e9 des douzaines de promesses. Nous l'avons vu dans la capitulation dans le dossier du bois d'oeuvre qui s'est traduite par des centaines d'emplois perdus en Colombie-Britannique, sans parler du demi-milliard de dollars pr\u00e9lev\u00e9s en droits ill\u00e9gaux dont on a fait cadeau au gouvernement Bush. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551276\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les conservateurs ont approuv\u00e9 la perte de centaines d'emplois, ce qui montre bien combien ils prennent au s\u00e9rieux la Colombie-Britannique. En fait, le jour du budget, le <a data-HoCid=\"78777\" href=\"/politicians/jim-flaherty/\" title=\"Jim Flaherty\">ministre des Finances</a> a dit que le Canada des conservateurs va des Rocheuses de l'Alberta jusqu'\u00e0 Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Ce qu'il a dit \u00e9tait une insulte envers tous les habitants de la Colombie-Britannique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551277\" data-originallang=\"en\">La semaine derni\u00e8re, dans le dossier de l'\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de dendroctone du pin, nous avons entendu le <a data-HoCid=\"78751\" href=\"/politicians/gary-lunn/\" title=\"Gary Lunn\">ministre des Ressources naturelles</a> dire en toute simplicit\u00e9 que cette \u00e9pid\u00e9mie, qui a d\u00e9vast\u00e9 l'int\u00e9rieur de la Colombie-Britannique, \u00ab n'\u00e9tait pas une priorit\u00e9 \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551278\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons maintenant la question de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 du transport ferroviaire, qui inqui\u00e8te les gens de la Colombie-Britannique depuis des ann\u00e9es parce que nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moins de la perte de vies et de la d\u00e9vastation de l'environnement. Plus que toute autre province, la Colombie-Britannique a subi les r\u00e9percussions de l'irresponsabilit\u00e9 du CN. Les gens de la province ont dit \u00e0 maintes reprises que la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 du transport ferroviaire doit \u00eatre une priorit\u00e9, et le gouvernement conservateur, tout comme le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, a compl\u00e8tement ignor\u00e9 les pr\u00e9occupations des Britanno-Colombiens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551279\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous avons ici ce soir le cas d'un gouvernement conservateur qui choisit la direction du CN et lui donne un ch\u00e8que en blanc pour qu'elle impose les conditions de travail de son choix \u00e0 ses employ\u00e9s alors que, de toute \u00e9vidence, les employ\u00e9s du CN ont signal\u00e9 \u00e0 tous les parlementaires qu'il fallait aussi aborder la question de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"551280\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ma question pour la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"78973\" href=\"/politicians/libby-davies/\" title=\"Libby Davies\">Vancouver-Est</a> est tr\u00e8s simple. Pourquoi le gouvernement conservateur ne comprend-il pas qu'il doit tenir compte des pr\u00e9occupations des habitants de la Colombie-Britannique?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/4/17/peter-julian-13/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/peter-julian/",
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"source_id": "2009500",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Railway Continuation Act, 2007",
"fr": ""
},
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