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{
"time": "2010-04-28 18:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Linda Duncan (Edmonton\u2014Strathcona, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1907083\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, first of all, I would like to congratulate the member for <a data-HoCid=\"128628\" href=\"/politicians/bruce-hyer/\" title=\"Bruce Hyer\">Thunder Bay\u2014Superior North</a> for his incredible persistence and his eloquence today in the House. I applaud him for his very cogent final speech on the bill. It certainly has touched me.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1907084\" data-originallang=\"en\">He raised the issue that, in my mind as a lawyer, is really the issue of the precautionary principle. I would be interested to hear his response to the fact that the Government of Canada is actually bound by the precautionary principle. The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld that Canada is bound by the precautionary principle. The member talked about the whole issue that we do not necessarily have to have a definitive answer in science. In fact, as I recall, our federal legislation leads us to that determination.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1907085\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is also the issue that if we actually began to reduce the major sources of emission of greenhouse gases and moved toward cleaner forms of energy, we would deal with other problems as well, including smog and the depletion of our water resources.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1907086\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would appreciate the member's response to those questions. The final one, if he has a chance, is the matter that has been coming before the natural resources committee. We have been hearing testimony after testimony to the effect that we have lost ground on the renewable clean energy sector because of the government's profound disregard for the value of that industry in addressing the problem of greenhouse gases.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1907083\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, tout d'abord, j'aimerais f\u00e9liciter le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"128628\" href=\"/politicians/bruce-hyer/\" title=\"Bruce Hyer\">Thunder Bay\u2014Superior-Nord</a> pour l'incroyable pers\u00e9v\u00e9rance et l'\u00e9loquence dont il a fait preuve aujourd'hui \u00e0 la Chambre. Je l'applaudis pour son allocution finale tr\u00e8s pertinente sur le projet de loi. Elle m'a certainement touch\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1907084\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il a soulev\u00e9 la question qui, dans mon esprit d'avocate, est vraiment li\u00e9e au principe de pr\u00e9caution. J'aimerais savoir ce qu'il pense du fait que le gouvernement du Canada est en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 li\u00e9 par le principe de pr\u00e9caution. La Cour supr\u00eame du Canada a confirm\u00e9 que le Canada \u00e9tait li\u00e9 par le principe de pr\u00e9caution. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a parl\u00e9 du fait que nous n'avions pas n\u00e9cessairement besoin d'une r\u00e9ponse scientifique d\u00e9finitive. En fait, si j'ai bonne m\u00e9moire, la l\u00e9gislation f\u00e9d\u00e9rale va dans ce sens.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1907085\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a aussi l'id\u00e9e que, si nous commencions vraiment \u00e0 r\u00e9duire les principales sources d'\u00e9mission de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre et adoptions des formes d'\u00e9nergie moins polluantes, nous r\u00e9glerions \u00e9galement d'autres probl\u00e8mes, y compris ceux du smog et de l'\u00e9puisement de nos ressources en eau.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1907086\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 r\u00e9ponde \u00e0 ces questions. La derni\u00e8re, s'il le peut, concerne la question dont a \u00e9t\u00e9 saisi le Comit\u00e9 des ressources naturelles. Nous avons entendu moult t\u00e9moignages selon lesquels nous avons perdu du terrain dans le secteur des \u00e9nergies propres renouvelables en raison de l'indiff\u00e9rence totale du gouvernement pour l'utilit\u00e9 de cette industrie dans la lutte contre les gaz \u00e0 effet de serre.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2010/4/28/linda-duncan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/linda-duncan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1029/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "3126847",
"h1": {
"en": "Private Members' Business",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Climate Change Accountability Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2010/4/28/",
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}