Mr. Speaker, as an ecologist I am quite familiar with a lot of the predictions and projections around the increase in climate change over the next few decades. One of the clearest projections in British Columbia especially, as my colleague mentioned, was the warming of our rivers. Just last year in my riding in the Okanagan Valley we were predicted to get a record run of sockeye salmon, over 400,000 fish. Almost all of them\u2014all but 10,000\u2014died in the pools of the Columbia River because the water was too warm.
\nWe hear a lot on the price of action, especially from the Conservatives. I want to know what the price of inaction is, especially with regard to salmon.
", "fr": "Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en tant qu'\u00e9cologiste, je connais passablement bien les pr\u00e9visions et les projections de changements climatiques au cours des prochaines d\u00e9cennies. L'une des projections les plus nettes en Colombie-Britannique, comme ma coll\u00e8gue l'a indiqu\u00e9, est celle du r\u00e9chauffement des cours d'eau. L'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, dans ma circonscription de la vall\u00e9e de l'Okanagan, on avait pr\u00e9vu qu'un nombre record de saumons remonteraient les rivi\u00e8res, soit 400 000, mais presque tous sont morts dans les bassins du fleuve Columbia parce que l'eau \u00e9tait trop chaude. Seulement 10 000 ont surv\u00e9cu.
\nOn entend beaucoup parler du co\u00fbt de la taxe, en particulier dans les interventions des conservateurs, mais je voudrais savoir quel serait le co\u00fbt de ne rien faire, notamment en ce qui a trait au saumon.
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