Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-06-19 13:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Libby Davies",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1172124\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for <a data-HoCid=\"78613\" href=\"/politicians/chris-charlton/\" title=\"Chris Charlton\">Hamilton Mountain</a> for rising to speak on her concerns about the bill and I am sure she will be speaking later on it as well at greater length. She echoes my concerns and those of the NDP. I would point out that Gordon Edwards, who is the president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, has said that any vote for this bill would be taken as an approval of nuclear power. It is a concern about the safety standards and the fact that the bill, as part of a larger privatization agenda that the government is so eager to rush forward on, is something that damages the public interest.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172125\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I am very glad that the member mentioned Bill <a data-HoCid=\"3085423\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-7/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Aeronautics Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-7</a> which is the next bill behind that because it is exactly the same kind of track. It is a track of privatization. It is a track of deregulation. It is a track of putting the public interest below private interests and that is exactly what we do not want to see. A majority of Canadians believe we are here in this place to protect their interests, particularly when it comes to questions of significant liability around a nuclear incident and accident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172126\" data-originallang=\"en\">As the member has pointed out, people may be impacted by an accident and they may receive significant health concerns as a result, or that may manifest itself in a future generation if it were something that was very serious. People want to know that they have legal protection. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172127\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yet, it seems to me the protection that is provided in the bill is really shortsighted. It is minimal. It is at the bottom of the international standings of what these protections are all about. Why would Canada, as is commonly phrased, be racing to the bottom? Why would we not be ensuring that we are leading the way with standards, whether it is on the environment, labour rights, or social standards? </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172128\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is part of a huge agenda that is taking place globally where we see a stranglehold of multinational corporations who want to advance the capacity for greater profitable gains at the expense of environmental degradation and a loss of standards for people who work in an industry. This bill is very much a part of that kind of agenda. Another reason we should say no to it.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1172124\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie la d\u00e9put\u00e9e de <a data-HoCid=\"78613\" href=\"/politicians/chris-charlton/\" title=\"Chris Charlton\">Hamilton Mountain</a> d'avoir exprim\u00e9 son inqui\u00e9tude \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard du projet de loi. Je suis persuad\u00e9e qu'elle reviendra \u00e0 la charge plus tard pour en parler plus longuement. Elle fait \u00e9cho \u00e0 mes pr\u00e9occupations et \u00e0 celles du NPD. Je rappellerai que Gordon Edwards, le pr\u00e9sident du Regroupement pour la surveillance du nucl\u00e9aire, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 qu'un vote en faveur de ce projet de loi serait interpr\u00e9t\u00e9 comme une approbation de l'\u00e9nergie nucl\u00e9aire. Il y a de quoi s'inqui\u00e9ter au sujet des normes de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, mais il faut \u00e9galement s'inqui\u00e9ter du fait que le projet de loi, un \u00e9l\u00e9ment de la strat\u00e9gie globale de privatisation que le gouvernement est impatient de mettre en oeuvre, est contraire \u00e0 l'int\u00e9r\u00eat public.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172125\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je suis tr\u00e8s contente que la d\u00e9put\u00e9e ait mentionn\u00e9 le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"3085423\" href=\"/bills/39-2/C-7/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Aeronautics Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-7</a>, qui va dans la m\u00eame direction, celle de la privatisation et de la d\u00e9r\u00e9glementation, et qui vise \u00e0 faire passer les int\u00e9r\u00eats priv\u00e9s avant l'int\u00e9r\u00eat public. C'est exactement ce que nous voulons \u00e9viter. La plupart des Canadiens croient que les d\u00e9put\u00e9s sont \u00e9lus pour d\u00e9fendre leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats, surtout en ce qui concerne l'importance de la responsabilit\u00e9 en cas d'incident et d'accident nucl\u00e9aires.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172126\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme la d\u00e9put\u00e9e l'a fait remarquer, la population risque de subir l'impact d'un accident. La sant\u00e9 de la population et des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations suivantes pourrait \u00eatre compromise par un accident tr\u00e8s grave. Les gens veulent savoir s'ils b\u00e9n\u00e9ficieront d'une protection l\u00e9gale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172127\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourtant, il me semble que la protection pr\u00e9vue dans le projet de loi est vraiment \u00e0 courte vue et insignifiante. Elle est bien en-de\u00e7\u00e0 des normes internationales en la mati\u00e8re. Pourquoi le Canada s'enfonce-t-il ainsi dans la m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9? Pourquoi ne voudrions-nous pas plut\u00f4t donner l'exemple, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 nos normes sociales et environnementales, \u00e0 nos normes relatives aux droits des travailleurs?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1172128\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ce projet de loi s'inscrit dans une vaste strat\u00e9gie de domination, \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle mondiale, des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s multinationales qui veulent augmenter leur capacit\u00e9 d'engranger des profits sans se pr\u00e9occuper de la d\u00e9gradation de l'environnement et des normes applicables aux travailleurs de l'industrie. Comme ce projet de loi s'inscrit dans cette strat\u00e9gie, voil\u00e0 une excellente raison de le rejeter.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/6/19/libby-davies-8/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/libby-davies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2499/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2546176",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Nuclear Liability and compensation Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/6/19/",
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