This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2013-05-03 12:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke North, Lib.)",
"fr": "Mme Kirsty Duncan (Etobicoke-Nord, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3310875\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present four petitions regarding climate change, our most pressing environmental issue and perhaps the defining issue of our generation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3310876\" data-originallang=\"en\">Climate change will profoundly affect our economy, environment, health, lifestyles and social well-being. How we respond will define the world our children and their descendants grow up in. More astringent actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions cannot be postponed much longer as dangerous climate change is associated with a global temperature rise of 2\u00b0 Celsius. The latest analysis suggests the world is already on track to a warming of 3.5\u00b0 Celsius.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3310877\" data-originallang=\"en\">The petitioners call on the government to accept the science of climate change, table a comprehensive climate change plan and commit to attaining the greenhouse gas emission goals it has promised internationally.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3310875\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis heureuse de pr\u00e9senter quatre p\u00e9titions sur les changements climatiques, qui repr\u00e9sentent pour nous l'enjeu le plus pressant sur le plan environnemental, et peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame l'enjeu d\u00e9terminant de notre g\u00e9n\u00e9ration. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3310876\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cet enjeu influera profond\u00e9ment sur notre \u00e9conomie, notre environnement, notre sant\u00e9, notre mode de vie et le bien-\u00eatre de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Les mesures que nous prendrons d\u00e9finiront le monde o\u00f9 vivront nos enfants et leurs descendants. Nous ne devons plus attendre pour prendre des mesures rigoureuses afin de r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre, car des changements climatiques dangereux sont associ\u00e9s \u00e0 un r\u00e9chauffement plan\u00e9taire de 2\u00b0 Celsius. D'apr\u00e8s les derni\u00e8res analyses, notre plan\u00e8te se dirige d\u00e9j\u00e0 vers un r\u00e9chauffement de 3,5\u00b0 Celsius. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3310877\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent au gouvernement de reconna\u00eetre la v\u00e9racit\u00e9 des donn\u00e9es scientifiques sur les changements climatiques, de d\u00e9poser un plan exhaustif pour s'y attaquer et de s'engager \u00e0 atteindre les objectifs en mati\u00e8re de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre qu'il s'est donn\u00e9s, comme il l'a promis \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 internationale.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2013/5/3/kirsty-duncan-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kirsty-duncan/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1028/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8001744",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "The Environment",
"fr": "L'environnement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2013/5/3/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2013%2F5%2F3%2F"
}
}