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{
"time": "2016-10-17 17:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mrs. Cheryl Gallant",
"fr": "Mme Cheryl Gallant"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4551516\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, at one time the forestry industry in my riding was the largest employer. Now we are down to about 8,000 jobs in the riding. The whole area along the Ottawa River was originally settled around the lumber industry. There are no other jobs for people to go to in rural Eastern Ontario. The Liberal government has not given any priority to expanding broadband Internet to rural areas and there is a huge broadband and cellphone gap in my riding. We cannot get those high-tech jobs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4551517\" data-originallang=\"en\">Right now, the increased price of electricity is really tough on the lumber industry. The greatest and growing input cost is electricity.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4551518\" data-originallang=\"en\"> It is tough to get the product across the border into the U.S. market. With the looming carbon tax adding at least another 10%, it will be untenable. More people will be out of work. More people will be hungry. More people will become dependent on other people.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4551516\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 une certaine \u00e9poque, l\u2019industrie foresti\u00e8re \u00e9tait le principal employeur dans ma circonscription. Aujourd\u2019hui, elle ne repr\u00e9sente plus que 8 000 emplois. Toute la vall\u00e9e de l\u2019Outaouais a \u00e9t\u00e9 colonis\u00e9e pour r\u00e9pondre aux besoins de main-d\u2019oeuvre de l\u2019industrie foresti\u00e8re. Dans les r\u00e9gions rurales de l\u2019Est de l\u2019Ontario, il n\u2019y a pas d\u2019autres employeurs. Le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral n\u2019a pas accord\u00e9 la moindre priorit\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9largissement du r\u00e9seau Internet \u00e0 grande vitesse dans les r\u00e9gions rurales, et ma circonscription souffre d\u2019une grave p\u00e9nurie de bande passante et de couverture cellulaire. Nous ne pouvons donc pas esp\u00e9rer des emplois en haute technologie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4551517\" data-originallang=\"en\"> L\u2019augmentation du prix de l\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 frappe durement l\u2019industrie foresti\u00e8re. L\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 est le principal intrant et celui dont le prix augmente le plus rapidement.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4551518\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Il est difficile de commercialiser les produits canadiens de l'autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la fronti\u00e8re, sur le march\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain. Avec la menace de l\u2019imposition d\u2019une taxe sur le carbone qui fera augmenter les co\u00fbts d\u2019au moins 10 %, la situation deviendra intenable. Il y aura plus de ch\u00f4meurs, plus de mis\u00e8re; davantage de gens devront vivre aux crochets de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2016/10/17/cheryl-gallant-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/cheryl-gallant/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1416/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9157351",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Softwood Lumber Agreement",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'accord sur le bois d'oeuvre"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2016/10/17/",
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}
}