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{
"time": "2009-03-13 11:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia (Lac-Saint-Louis, Lib.)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1346877\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, March 22 is World Water Day. This year, the theme for World Water Day is \u201cShared Water, Shared Opportunities\u201d. It aims at highlighting the unique challenges of waterways that cross the political borders between countries.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1346878\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The world\u2019s 263 transboundary lake and river basins cross 145 countries and cover nearly half of the Earth\u2019s land surface. This is to say nothing of the massive reservoirs of freshwater in underground aquifers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1346879\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> In view of growing pressure on the world\u2019s freshwater from population growth, pollution and climate change, it is important, now more than ever, that we work together both within Canada and on the international stage to protect our water resources.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1346880\" data-originallang=\"fr\">World Water Day gives me the opportunity to call on the government to take the issue of water seriously and to create, in Canada, a truly national water strategy. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1346877\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le 22 mars, ce sera la Journ\u00e9e mondiale de l'eau. Cette ann\u00e9e, le th\u00e8me de la journ\u00e9e est \u00ab Une eau partag\u00e9e -- des occasions partag\u00e9es \u00bb, et met l'accent sur la probl\u00e9matique unique li\u00e9e aux cours d'eau qui traversent les fronti\u00e8res nationales.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1346878\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Les 263 bassins lacustres et fluviaux transfrontaliers du monde touchent 145 pays et couvrent pr\u00e8s de la moiti\u00e9 de la surface terrestre de la plan\u00e8te, sans parler des \u00e9normes r\u00e9serves d'eau douce souterraines.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1346879\" data-originallang=\"fr\">\u00c9tant donn\u00e9 la pression croissante exerc\u00e9e sur nos ressources en eau douce par l'augmentation de la population, de la pollution et des changements climatiques, il est plus important que jamais de collaborer, au Canada et sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale, pour prot\u00e9ger l'eau. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1346880\" data-originallang=\"fr\">En vue de la Journ\u00e9e mondiale de l'eau, je demande au gouvernement de prendre au s\u00e9rieux la question de l'eau et de cr\u00e9er, au Canada, une v\u00e9ritable politique nationale de l'eau.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/3/13/francis-scarpaleggia-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/francis-scarpaleggia/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1480/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2660915",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "World Water Day",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/3/13/",
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}