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{
    "time": "2009-09-14 15:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Linda Duncan (Edmonton\u2014Strathcona, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1591415\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I have a question for the member for <a data-HoCid=\"128350\" href=\"/politicians/ron-cannan/\" title=\"Ron Cannan\">Kelowna\u2014Lake Country</a>. The member believes in competitiveness. The government believes in competitiveness. The International Energy Agency has told countries worldwide that the path out of this global recession is the new green economy and investment in the new green economy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1591416\" data-originallang=\"en\">If the government, as a member of the International Energy Agency, truly embraces a path to come out of this recession, truly embraces the new path of competitiveness, truly believes in proper development and exchange with other nations of the world, why has the government chosen to formulate and agree to an agreement that sidebars human rights and sustainable development?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1591417\" data-originallang=\"en\">Surely, we have learned through the past two decades that it is necessary to incorporate that within trade. Surely, they are not being side-barred.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1591415\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai une question pour le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"128350\" href=\"/politicians/ron-cannan/\" title=\"Ron Cannan\">Kelowna\u2014Lake Country</a>. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 croit en la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9. Le gouvernement croit en la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9. L'Agence internationale de l'\u00e9nergie a affirm\u00e9 aux pays du monde entier que la voie de sortie de cette r\u00e9cession passait par la nouvelle \u00e9conomie verte et les investissements dans cette nouvelle \u00e9conomie. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1591416\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si le gouvernement, en tant que membre de l'Agence internationale de l'\u00e9nergie, d\u00e9cide de vraiment opter pour une voie afin de sortir de la r\u00e9cession, de vraiment opter pour la nouvelle voie de la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9, de vraiment croire en un d\u00e9veloppement et des \u00e9changes appropri\u00e9s avec les autres pays dans le monde, pourquoi a-t-il choisi de proposer et d'ent\u00e9riner un accord qui traite les droits de la personne et le d\u00e9veloppement durable comme des questions accessoires?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1591417\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est n\u00e9cessaire de les int\u00e9grer au commerce, les deux derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies nous l'ont sans aucun doute prouv\u00e9. On ne peut pas mettre ces questions entre parenth\u00e8ses. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/9/14/linda-duncan-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/linda-duncan/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1029/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2857737",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/9/14/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2009%2F9%2F14%2F"
    }
}