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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2010-10-26 12:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Linda Duncan",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2117616\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague has raised many concerns, particularly with respect to the labour side of this agreement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2117617\" data-originallang=\"en\">It is quite straightforward how we would incorporate environmental matters into the trade agreement. We simply would treat them with the same level of seriousness. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2117618\" data-originallang=\"en\">The trade agreement provides that private corporations can go after the government for compensation if their trade, development and economic situations are prejudiced by a decision by the Government of Canada to protect the environment. We should have parallel measures in every trade agreement where the public interest of Canada would be given equal weight when some kind of a trade decision is made to the prejudice of the environment of Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2117619\" data-originallang=\"en\">We simply need to raise the measures that are in the side agreement on the environment to the level of the binding trade agreement, and frankly give the citizens of Canada the standing to come before those tribunals and speak on their behalf.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2117616\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, mon coll\u00e8gue a soulev\u00e9 bon nombre de pr\u00e9occupations, particuli\u00e8rement en ce qui a trait \u00e0 l'aspect de cet accord qui porte sur le travail. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2117617\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il est assez facile de voir comment nous pourrions incorporer les questions environnementales dans l'entente commerciale. Nous devrions tout simplement les traiter avec le m\u00eame s\u00e9rieux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2117618\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'accord stipule que les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s priv\u00e9es qui estiment qu'une d\u00e9cision prise par le gouvernement du Canada en vue de prot\u00e9ger l'environnement pourrait les avoir l\u00e9s\u00e9es peuvent demander une indemnisation, si leus \u00e9changes commerciaux, leur situation et leur expansion en ont souffert. Nous devrions inclure des ententes auxiliaires dans toutes les ententes commerciales pour nous assurer que l'on accorde le m\u00eame poids \u00e0 l'int\u00e9r\u00eat public du Canada qu'\u00e0 d'autres consid\u00e9rations lorsqu'une d\u00e9cision commerciale est prise au d\u00e9triment de l'environnement du Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2117619\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il suffirait de faire passer les mesures se trouvant dans l'accord auxiliaire en mati\u00e8re d'environnement au niveau de l'accord commercial ayant force obligatoire et d'offrir aux Canadiens les recours n\u00e9cessaires pour qu'ils puissent se pr\u00e9senter devant ces tribunaux et d\u00e9fendre leur cause. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/10/26/linda-duncan-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/linda-duncan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1029/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3417463",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada-Panama Free Trade Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/10/26/",
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}