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{
"time": "2010-04-19 17:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Bruce Hyer (Thunder Bay\u2014Superior North, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1880192\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I cannot believe what I am hearing from the Conservatives and Liberals today. They readily admit that Colombia is a disaster in human rights, with a drug trade and lax environmental regulations. Their logic seems to be that the more problems a country has, the better it is to conclude a trade deal with it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1880193\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world. Ten percent of the world's species are in the forests there. There are over 1,800 birds, over 600 amphibians and over 400 mammals. The list goes on and yet deforestation has displaced four million people, according to the UN, and 50,000 hectares of deforestation have displaced 300,000 people just in 2007.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1880194\" data-originallang=\"en\">How can the Liberals go along with the Conservatives on this kind of faulty logic?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1880192\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai du mal \u00e0 croire ce qui sort de la bouche des conservateurs et des lib\u00e9raux aujourd'hui. Ils reconnaissent volontiers que le bilan de la Colombie au chapitre des droits de la personne est catastrophique, qu'on y trafique de la drogue et que ses r\u00e8glements environnementaux sont extr\u00eamement souples. Selon leur logique, il semble que, plus un pays est truff\u00e9 de probl\u00e8mes, plus il est int\u00e9ressant de conclure un accord commercial avec lui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1880193\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cependant, la Colombie est le deuxi\u00e8me pays du monde sur le plan de la biodiversit\u00e9. Dix pour cent des esp\u00e8ces du monde vivent dans les for\u00eats colombiennes. Celles-ci comptent plus de 1 800 esp\u00e8ces d'oiseaux, plus de 600 esp\u00e8ces d'amphibiens et plus de 400 esp\u00e8ces de mammif\u00e8res. La liste est longue mais quatre millions de personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9es \u00e0 cause de la d\u00e9forestation, selon les Nations Unies; en 2007 seulement, plus de 300 000 personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9es \u00e0 la suite de la d\u00e9forestation de 50 000 hectares de for\u00eat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1880194\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comment les lib\u00e9raux peuvent-ils adh\u00e9rer ainsi \u00e0 la logique bancale des conservateurs?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/4/19/bruce-hyer-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bruce-hyer/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1072/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3101897",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/4/19/",
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}
}