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{
"time": "2017-02-23 15:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Michelle Rempel",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Michelle Rempel"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4770682\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I wrote an opinion piece in the <em>National Post</em> which was published on August 9, 2016. I put forward some suggestions around what Canada could be doing to have a more comprehensive and more common-sense approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I said that:</p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4770683\" data-originallang=\"en\"> ...presenting a price on carbon as a painless, standalone cure-all is a fallacy in the cold, natural resource-intensive economy that is Canada. Our GHG policy will likely need to consider phased-in, sector-specific regulations (the current federal government isn\u2019t talking about repealing regulations put in place by the previous government), developing and adopting new, more efficient technologies and other approaches. It will also require Canadians to make a financial sacrifice, and Canadians should have a say on whether or not they want to make it. The cost of GHG policy shouldn\u2019t be hidden in bafflegab line items on their electricity bills, in order to avoid political scrutiny. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4770684\" data-originallang=\"en\"> It also certainly should not be hidden in reports that the government refuses to release.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4770682\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un article d'opinion qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 dans le <em>National Post</em> du 9 ao\u00fbt 2016. Dans cet article, je propose des mesures que le Canada pourrait prendre en vue d'adopter une approche plus globale et plus sens\u00e9e en mati\u00e8re de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre. En voici un extrait: </p>\n<blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4770683\" data-originallang=\"en\"> [...] il est trompeur de pr\u00e9senter la tarification du carbone comme une panac\u00e9e sans douleur pour l'\u00e9conomie canadienne froide, qui repose lourdement sur les ressources naturelles. La politique canadienne de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre devra probablement inclure une r\u00e9glementation progressive propre \u00e0 chacun des secteurs (le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral actuel ne parle pas d'abroger les r\u00e8glements mis en place par le gouvernement pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent) et pr\u00e9voir l'\u00e9laboration et l'adoption de nouvelles technologies plus efficientes, ainsi que d'autres m\u00e9canismes. Elle exigera aussi que les Canadiens fassent un sacrifice sur le plan financier \u2014 et les Canadiens devraient pouvoir indiquer s'ils sont pr\u00eats ou non \u00e0 le faire. Le co\u00fbt associ\u00e9 \u00e0 la politique de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions de gaz \u00e0 effet de serre ne devrait pas \u00eatre dissimul\u00e9 dans des \u00e9l\u00e9ments de leur facture d'\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 qui ne veulent rien dire parce que le gouvernement souhaite \u00e9viter qu'on scrute ses politiques. </p>\n</blockquote><p data-HoCid=\"4770684\" data-originallang=\"en\">En outre, il ne devrait certainement pas \u00eatre dissimul\u00e9 dans des rapports que le gouvernement refuse de publier.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2017/2/23/michelle-rempel-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/michelle-rempel/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4385/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "9402502",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Initiatives Minist\u00e9rielles"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Impact of Carbon Taxes",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'incidence de la tarification du carbone"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2017/2/23/",
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}
}