Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-04-01 13:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Rodger Cuzner (Cape Breton\u2014Canso, Lib.)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1846662\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague's opinion and get his comments on the lack of vision, the shortsightedness, within the budgetary document and in recent announcements that cutbacks have been made to ACAP, the Atlantic coastal action program. ACAP is a not-for-profit agency that funds and operates a number of different environmental projects throughout Atlantic Canada. I know the member's home province of Newfoundland and Labrador has a similar agency.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1846663\" data-originallang=\"en\">In my community, ACAP has provided an opportunity for homeowners to have an eco-energy audit done on their homes and thus be able to apply for an energy retrofit, and there was funding assistance for the energy retrofit program. That program is one that has ceased. It will not be funded going forward. It is one that has brought a great deal of benefit to our community, to about 3,500 homes within our area alone. It has had a tremendously positive impact on the environment and provided cost savings for those who need cost savings, when we look at the high energy costs in our province.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1846664\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would like to ask my colleague, the member for <a data-HoCid=\"128652\" href=\"/politicians/scott-simms/\" title=\"Scott Simms\">Bonavista\u2014Gander\u2014Grand Falls\u2014Windsor</a>, what type of impact he is hearing from the people back home on these cutbacks and how this is going to impact on the operation of the ACAP facility in Newfoundland.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1846662\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aimerais demander \u00e0 mon coll\u00e8gue son opinion sur le manque de vision et de perspicacit\u00e9 du document budg\u00e9taire et des r\u00e9centes annonces sur les compressions visant le Plan d'assainissement du littoral atlantique, le PALA. Le PALA est un organisme sans but lucratif qui finance et dirige de nombreux projets environnementaux diff\u00e9rents un peu partout dans le Canada atlantique. Je sais que Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, d'o\u00f9 vient le d\u00e9put\u00e9, a un organisme semblable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1846663\" data-originallang=\"en\">Dans ma collectivit\u00e9, le PALA a permis \u00e0 des propri\u00e9taires d'obtenir une \u00e9valuation \u00e9co\u00c9nergie de leur domicile, qui leur permettait ensuite de faire une demande dans le cadre du programme \u00e9co\u00c9NERGIE R\u00e9novation. Le PALA offrait \u00e9galement une aide financi\u00e8re pour participer \u00e0 ce programme. Or, le PALA ne sera plus financ\u00e9. Uniquement dans notre r\u00e9gion, environ 3 500 foyers ont profit\u00e9 de ce programme. Il a eu un impact tr\u00e8s positif sur l'environnement et a permis \u00e0 ceux qui en avaient besoin d'\u00e9conomiser sur les co\u00fbts \u00e9lev\u00e9s de l'\u00e9nergie dans notre province.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1846664\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais que mon coll\u00e8gue, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"128652\" href=\"/politicians/scott-simms/\" title=\"Scott Simms\">Bonavista\u2014Gander\u2014Grand Falls\u2014Windsor</a>, nous dise ce que les habitants de sa province pensent de ces compressions et quel sera l'impact de celles-ci sur le fonctionnement du PALA \u00e0 Terre-Neuve. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/4/1/rodger-cuzner-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/rodger-cuzner/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1331/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3079767",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Jobs and Economic Growth Act",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/4/1/",
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    }
}