Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2017-06-01 11:10:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Jim Carr",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Jim Carr"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4923902\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, we came into office with major energy projects under review. We had to make decisions on how those reviews were to be handled in the short term while we looked at permanent reforms to the environmental assessment process in Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4923903\" data-originallang=\"en\">The member will know that as a part of those interim principles, we established more consultation, not only from government but also from an expert panel that made its way up and down the line, speaking extensively and meaningfully with indigenous communities and others who had an opinion. As a matter of fact, on the website there were literally tens of thousands of opinions expressed by Canadians from coast to coast to coast. That is not something that the process had allowed before. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4923904\" data-originallang=\"en\">We knew that the National Energy Board, as it was currently constituted, did not have the confidence of Canadians, so in the case of those projects under review, we added more opportunities and a different set of criteria, leading to the decision that in the opinion of the Government of Canada, this project was in Canada's interest.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4923902\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, d\u2019importants projets \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques faisaient l\u2019objet d\u2019examens quand nous sommes arriv\u00e9s au pouvoir. Nous avons d\u00fb d\u00e9cider comment ces examens seraient trait\u00e9s \u00e0 court terme pendant que nous envisagions des r\u00e9formes permanentes du processus d\u2019\u00e9valuation environnementale au Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4923903\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 se rappellera qu\u2019entre autres mesures provisoires, nous avons exig\u00e9 plus de consultations, non seulement par le gouvernement, mais aussi par un comit\u00e9 d\u2019experts qui s\u2019est d\u00e9plac\u00e9 d\u2019un bout \u00e0 l\u2019autre du trac\u00e9 et s\u2019est entretenu longuement et substantiellement avec les communaut\u00e9s autochtones et les autres parties prenantes. D\u2019ailleurs, sur le site Web, on pouvait compter par dizaines de milliers les opinions exprim\u00e9es par des Canadiens d\u2019un bout \u00e0 l\u2019autre du pays. Le processus ant\u00e9rieur n\u2019aurait pas permis une aussi vaste consultation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4923904\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Nous savions que l\u2019Office national de l\u2019\u00e9nergie, tel qu\u2019il \u00e9tait constitu\u00e9 alors, n\u2019avait pas la confiance des Canadiens, si bien que, dans le cas des projets en cours d\u2019\u00e9valuation, nous avons \u00e9largi les perspectives et ajout\u00e9 un ensemble de crit\u00e8res diff\u00e9rents, ce qui a men\u00e9 \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision que, de l\u2019avis du gouvernement du Canada, ce projet servait bien les int\u00e9r\u00eats du pays.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2017/6/1/jim-carr-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/jim-carr/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4412/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "9571949",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": "Travaux des subsides"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project",
        "fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Le projet d'expansion du r\u00e9seau de Trans Mountain de Kinder Morgan"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2017/6/1/",
    "related": {
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    }
}