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{
"time": "2010-04-19 17:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Simms",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1880195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I want to address the issue. He talks about the disaster there and gives the impression that it is becoming increasingly worse as they digress. Numbers point out that the rate of unionist homicides in Colombia between 1995 and 2008 has decreased dramatically. Basically, per 100,000 inhabitants, it was at 25 to 30 above that at the peak of 1996 and down to less than half that in 2008.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1880196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Again, it is not a perfect situation for a trade partner to be in, but it certainly has improved over the past while. Canadians have gone a long way in providing the world with decent policies surrounding biodiversity and we continue to do so. Why would we not want to engage Colombia in a conversation to do much of the same when it, too, has the renewable resources that it desires so much and that we can contribute to help save the very asset about which he talked?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1880195\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je veux aborder cette question. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 parle de la situation catastrophique en Colombie, et il donne l'impression qu'elle ne cesse de se d\u00e9t\u00e9riorer. Toutefois, d'apr\u00e8s les statistiques, le nombre de syndicalistes victimes d'homicides en Colombie a diminu\u00e9 consid\u00e9rablement entre 1995 et 2008. \u00c0 son point culminant, en 1996, le nombre de syndicalistes victimes d'homicides, par 100 000 habitants, \u00e9tait de 25 \u00e0 30 fois sup\u00e9rieur au nombre actuel et, en 2008, il \u00e9tait plus de deux fois inf\u00e9rieur.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1880196\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme il a \u00e9t\u00e9 mentionn\u00e9, ce n'est pas une situation parfaite, mais elle s'est certainement am\u00e9lior\u00e9e r\u00e9cemment. Les Canadiens ont fourni un grand nombre de bonnes politiques en mati\u00e8re de biodiversit\u00e9, et nous continuons de le faire. Pourquoi ne voudrions-nous pas convaincre la Colombie de nous imiter \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard quand elle poss\u00e8de elle aussi les ressources renouvelables tant d\u00e9sir\u00e9es et que nous pouvons contribuer \u00e0 sauver les ressources dont le d\u00e9put\u00e9 parlait?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/4/19/scott-simms-6/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/scott-simms/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3101899",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/4/19/",
"related": {
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}
}