Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-05-03 12:20:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. John Barlow",
        "fr": "M. John Barlow"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5381095\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I enjoy the agriculture committee a great deal, and my colleague and I work well together on that committee. However, we talked about having this emergency meeting in March and it never should have come to that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5381096\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Again, the member talked about the railways adding locomotives and hiring people. Yes, certainly they have done that, but they have done that much too late. They should have started doing this in the fall. As they said at committee that day, it takes them six months to train a crew to get it up and running. They started doing this in April and May when they should have been doing it in September and October. The problem with the bill is that it does not hold those rail companies to any accountability when it comes to ensuring they are meeting their commitment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5381097\" data-originallang=\"en\">For example, the member talked about some of the things in the bill that would do that. However, on the long-haul interswitching, there are so many lists of triggers in there to make it actually kick-in that it will rarely be used. With the extended interswitching, some of the things we had in Bill C-30 solved those issues. We are going backward. </p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5381095\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'aime beaucoup si\u00e9ger au comit\u00e9 de l'agriculture, et il est vrai que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 et moi avons une excellente collaboration. Cependant, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 question de tenir une r\u00e9union d'urgence, en mars, et les choses n'auraient jamais d\u00fb en venir l\u00e0. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5381096\" data-originallang=\"en\">Encore une fois, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 fait valoir que les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s ferroviaires ont plus de locomotives et ont embauch\u00e9 des employ\u00e9s. C'est exact, mais elles l'ont fait beaucoup trop tard. Elles auraient d\u00fb s'y mettre d\u00e8s l'automne. Elles ont fait savoir au comit\u00e9 qu'il leur faut six mois pour mettre un \u00e9quipage sur pied et \u00e0 l'oeuvre. Elles ont entrepris de le faire en avril et en mai, alors qu'elles auraient d\u00fb s'y mettre en septembre ou en octobre. Malheureusement, le projet de loi n'oblige pas les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s ferroviaires \u00e0 rendre des comptes concernant le respect de leurs engagements. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5381097\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 mentionne des \u00e9l\u00e9ments du projet de loi qui vont en ce sens, mais, en mati\u00e8re d'interconnexion de longue distance, par exemple, la liste de d\u00e9clencheurs est si longue qu'on appliquera rarement cette disposition. Nous avions pr\u00e9vu des solutions dans le projet de loi C-30 relativement \u00e0 l'interconnexion de longue distance. Maintenant, nous faisons marche arri\u00e8re.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/5/3/john-barlow-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/john-barlow/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4377/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10104274",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Initiatives minist\u00e9rielles"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Transportation Modernization Act",
        "fr": "Loi sur la modernisation des transports"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/5/3/",
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