Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-12-02 12:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Thomas Mulcair",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2213269\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, my colleague from Skeena\u2014Bulkley Valley provided a good summary of the situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2213270\" data-originallang=\"fr\">There is a total lack of long-term vision in what the government is doing. It is leaving the cleanup to future generations because of the way the oil sands have been developed. The next generations will have no energy security because, with projects like Trailbreaker to the east and Keystone, Alberta Clipper and Southern Lights, the government is opening the taps to the United States as quickly as possible. The North American Free Trade Agreement will do the rest. With the proportionality rule, we could not even cut back if we wanted to keep some for ourselves. We will be forced to impose proportionally the same reductions on ourselves as we do on the United States. That is what is going on in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2213271\" data-originallang=\"fr\">These are the choices we are talking about. There will be a legacy of huge debts and nothing else. There is nothing sustainable and nothing long-term. We could at least have a vision for developing clean and renewable energies and at the same time finding ways to properly develop the oil sands and perhaps even shale gas. But the techniques currently being proposed for shale gas are very dangerous in the long term for groundwater and for soils.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2213272\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It is ridiculous to move forward like this without any guarantees that this will not contaminate groundwater and harm farmlands.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2213269\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, mon coll\u00e8gue de Skeena\u2014Bulkley Valley r\u00e9sume tr\u00e8s bien la situation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2213270\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est une absence totale de vision de l'effet \u00e0 long terme dans ce qu'on est en train de faire. On est en train de pelleter sur le dos des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations futures le probl\u00e8me de nettoyer \u00e0 cause de la fa\u00e7on dont on a produit au niveau des sables bitumineux. On va leur enlever la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique, parce qu'avec des projets comme Trailbreaker vers l'Est, Keystone, Alberta Clipper et Southern Lights, on est en train d'ouvrir les vannes vers les \u00c9tats-Unis le plus rapidement possible. L'Accord de libre-\u00e9change nord-am\u00e9ricain va faire le reste. Avec la r\u00e8gle de proportionnalit\u00e9, on ne pourrait m\u00eame pas le r\u00e9duire si on voulait en garder pour nous. On va \u00eatre oblig\u00e9s de s'imposer des r\u00e9ductions dans la m\u00eame proportion qu'aux \u00c9tats-Unis. C'est ce qu'on est en train de faire au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2213271\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Quand on parle de choix, c'est cela. On laisse des dettes \u00e9normes, sans rien de p\u00e9renne. Il n'y a rien de durable et rien \u00e0 long terme. Si au moins on avait une vision de construire pour des \u00e9nergies propres et renouvelables, tout en exploitant correctement les sables bitumineux et, \u00e9ventuellement, les gaz de schiste. Toutefois, les techniques propos\u00e9es \u00e0 l'heure actuelle pour les gaz de schiste sont archi-dangereuses \u00e0 long terme pour la nappe phr\u00e9atique et pour les sols.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2213272\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> C'est une folie de proc\u00e9der \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard tant qu'on n'a pas des garanties que cela n'endommagera pas la nappe phr\u00e9atique et les terres agricoles.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/12/2/thomas-mulcair-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/thomas-mulcair/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/826/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3617044",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion--West Coast Oil Tanker Traffic",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/12/2/",
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}