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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2007-04-24 14:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Bernard Bigras (Rosemont\u2014La Petite-Patrie, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"561508\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in Montreal, the Quebec business community was bitterly disappointed by the <a data-HoCid=\"105835\" href=\"/politicians/john-baird/\" title=\"John Baird\">Minister of the Environment</a>, who refused to allow our industries to have access to European or Asian carbon exchanges. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"561509\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Does the minister realize that his refusal is not only a threat to the environment, but also to Quebec's economy, because it prevents our businesses from having access to a market that could exceed $70 billion, and it also prevents them from selling their excess credits on those markets?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"561508\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, hier, \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, le <a data-HoCid=\"105835\" href=\"/politicians/john-baird/\" title=\"John Baird\">ministre de l'Environnement</a> a am\u00e8rement d\u00e9\u00e7u la communaut\u00e9 d'affaires du Qu\u00e9bec en refusant que les industriels d'ici puissent avoir acc\u00e8s aux bourses du carbone europ\u00e9ennes ou asiatiques.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"561509\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Le ministre est-il conscient que son refus menace non seulement l'environnement, mais aussi l'\u00e9conomie qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise, car il prive nos entreprises de l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 un march\u00e9 pouvant atteindre plus de 70 milliards de dollars et il les emp\u00eache ainsi de vendre sur ce march\u00e9 leurs cr\u00e9dits exc\u00e9dentaires?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/4/24/bernard-bigras-11/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bernard-bigras/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1513/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2028308",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Environment",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2007/4/24/",
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}
}