Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-10-16 13:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Fin Donnelly (Port Moody\u2014Coquitlam, NDP)",
        "fr": "M. Fin Donnelly (Port Moody\u2014Coquitlam, NPD)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5061733\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I appreciate my hon. colleague's intervention. I just want to take him back a bit to the global setting in 1992 when the world came together to say that we needed to protect our oceans. The oceans were in trouble. Marine species, especially our predators, were in huge decline. The oceans were acidifying. Fast forward to today, and now we have a huge problem with marine plastics proliferating our oceans, an even greater problem we now have to deal with. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5061734\" data-originallang=\"en\">Member states were given 25 and 30 years to protect 5 and 10% of the oceans. In the last 25 years, until last year, Canada had protected only 1% of our ocean. That is inadequate by any standards. Over the last 10 years it was not just Conservative governments but also Liberal governments that brought us to that 1% protection. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5061735\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would the member agree that not only do we need minimal standards, but that we also need to intensify this process to achieve our 5 and 10%? As I mentioned earlier, I was just at a conference where the leading scientists were talking about going to half, to protecting 50% of our oceans. Therefore, we are not doing enough in Canada. Would the member not agree that we need to do more?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5061733\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'appr\u00e9cie l'intervention de mon coll\u00e8gue. Je voudrais simplement lui rappeler la situation \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle de la plan\u00e8te, en 1992, lorsque le monde entier a convenu qu'il fallait prot\u00e9ger les oc\u00e9ans, vu leur \u00e9tat alarmant. Les populations d'esp\u00e8ces marines, en particulier les pr\u00e9dateurs, diminuaient dangereusement. Les oc\u00e9ans \u00e9taient en train de s'acidifier. Aujourd'hui, nous devons faire face \u00e0 un probl\u00e8me \u00e9norme, encore plus grand qu'avant, de pollution des oc\u00e9ans par le plastique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5061734\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les \u00c9tats membres disposent de 25 \u00e0 30 ans pour prot\u00e9ger de 5 \u00e0 10 % des oc\u00e9ans. Au cours des 25 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, jusqu'\u00e0 l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, le Canada n'a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 que 1 % de ses zones marines. C'est nettement inad\u00e9quat, peu importe le crit\u00e8re retenu. Au cours des 10 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, ce ne sont pas uniquement des gouvernements conservateurs, mais aussi des gouvernements lib\u00e9raux qui ont appliqu\u00e9 la norme de protection de 1 % des zones marines.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5061735\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 est-il d'accord pour dire qu'il nous faut des normes minimales, mais que nous devons aussi presser le pas pour atteindre les seuils de 5 % et de 10 %? Comme je l'ai indiqu\u00e9 tout \u00e0 l'heure, je viens d'assister \u00e0 un congr\u00e8s o\u00f9 d'\u00e9minents scientifiques pr\u00e9conisaient la protection de la moiti\u00e9 ou 50 % des oc\u00e9ans. Par cons\u00e9quent, le Canada n'en fait pas assez. Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 convient-il que nous devons en faire plus?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/10/16/fin-donnelly-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/fin-donnelly/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4450/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9705275",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Oceans Act",
        "fr": "La Loi sur les oc\u00e9ans"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/10/16/",
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}