Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-12-08 16:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Pat Martin",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2235537\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, my colleague from <a data-HoCid=\"128626\" href=\"/politicians/glenn-thibeault/\" title=\"Glenn Thibeault\">Sudbury</a> is absolutely right. The liability also has an opportunity built into it as well. As we tear up the tracks and relocate the rail line somewhere outside of the city, for safety and pollution reasons, it leaves us opportunities for green space within the inner city. I understand Windsor, Ontario has made very good use of the lands it made available. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2235538\" data-originallang=\"en\"> The Forks in downtown Winnipeg, of which we are very proud, was in fact the old rail yard's maintenance shops. It was terribly contaminated and polluted, but with the co-operation of all three levels of government, we have turned an eyesore liability into one of our best assets. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2235539\" data-originallang=\"en\">I like the idea of bicycle paths along the routes where the rail lines used to run. In fact, it is natural to use that whole railway bed for a bicycle path.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2235540\" data-originallang=\"en\">We need a recommitment to rail transportation in our country. For years the tracks have been torn up in places we did not want torn up. The tracks should be torn up in our inner cities and urban environments to create more green space and opportunity to social housing. We can put that land to better use.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2235537\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, mon coll\u00e8gue de <a data-HoCid=\"128626\" href=\"/politicians/glenn-thibeault/\" title=\"Glenn Thibeault\">Sudbury</a> a parfaitement raison. L'obligation de r\u00e9parer ouvre automatiquement des possibilit\u00e9s. Lorsqu'on enl\u00e8ve les rails et fait passer le chemin de fer \u00e0 l'ext\u00e9rieur de la ville, pour des raisons de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et \u00e0 cause de la pollution, cela ouvre des possibilit\u00e9s de cr\u00e9er des espaces verts au coeur de la ville. Je crois savoir que l'on a tr\u00e8s bien am\u00e9nag\u00e9 les terrains ainsi r\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9s \u00e0 Windsor, en Ontario.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2235538\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le secteur du centre-ville de Winnipeg connu sous le nom de \u00ab The Forks \u00bb et dont nous sommes tr\u00e8s fiers se trouve en fait sur l'ancien emplacement des ateliers d'entretien de la cour de triage. Le lieu \u00e9tait terriblement contamin\u00e9 et pollu\u00e9, mais gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la collaboration des trois ordres de gouvernement, on a fait d'un lieu d'une grande laideur un de nos plus grands atouts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2235539\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aime l'id\u00e9e d'am\u00e9nager des pistes cyclables l\u00e0 o\u00f9 passait autrefois le chemin de fer. Il est en fait naturel que l'assiette du chemin de fer serve de base \u00e0 une piste cyclable. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2235540\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il conviendrait de renouveler notre engagement \u00e0 l'\u00e9gard du transport ferroviaire au Canada. Cela fait ann\u00e9es qu'on enl\u00e8ve des rails l\u00e0 o\u00f9 nous n'aurions pas voulu qu'ils soient enlev\u00e9s. On devrait les enlever dans nos centres-villes et en milieu urbain pour c\u00e9der la place \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation de plus d'espaces verts et de logements sociaux. Ces terrains pourraient \u00eatre utilis\u00e9s \u00e0 de meilleures fins. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/12/8/pat-martin-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/pat-martin/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2515/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3648040",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Safer Railways Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/12/8/",
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}