Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2019-06-14 10:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Richard Cannings",
        "fr": "M. Richard Cannings"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5993075\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I totally agree with the member for <a data-HoCid=\"213979\" href=\"/politicians/wayne-easter/\" title=\"Wayne Easter\">Malpeque</a>. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5993076\" data-originallang=\"en\">An example from my riding is that the Okanagan River was channelized in the 1950s to make the water get out of town faster in the spring flood. That has resulted in a huge loss of habitat quality and in habitat, period. A lot of that has been the loss of the trees and shrubs along the river. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5993077\" data-originallang=\"en\">Groups have been working hard in the Okanagan Valley in the last 10 or 20 years to restore some of that. It is remarkable how that change feels when you are walking along parts of the river. There are trails along the dikes that control the river now and there are cool areas where this habitat has been restored, where the fish habitat has been restored. It is a very popular recreation area. As I mentioned, restoring the salmon has brought back those recreational fisheries as well. People cannot believe they are in the Okanagan Valley in the middle of the desert and they are actually fishing for wild sockeye salmon. It is a huge boon to the economy and to the well-being of the people who live there.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5993075\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je suis tout \u00e0 fait d'accord avec le d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"213979\" href=\"/politicians/wayne-easter/\" title=\"Wayne Easter\">Malpeque</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5993076\" data-originallang=\"en\">Par exemple, dans ma circonscription, la rivi\u00e8re Okanagan a \u00e9t\u00e9 canalis\u00e9e dans les ann\u00e9es 1950 pour permettre \u00e0 l'eau de s'\u00e9vacuer plus rapidement de la ville lors des inondations printani\u00e8res. Cette mesure a entra\u00een\u00e9 une perte \u00e9norme de la qualit\u00e9 de l'habitat et de l'habitat en tant que tel. Cette situation d\u00e9coule en grande partie de la perte des arbres et des arbustes le long de la rivi\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5993077\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis 10 ou 20 ans, des groupes travaillent d'arrache-pied dans la vall\u00e9e de l'Okanagan pour restaurer une partie de cet habitat. Il est remarquable de constater ce changement lorsqu'on marche le long de certaines parties de la rivi\u00e8re. Il y a d\u00e9sormais des sentiers le long des digues qui contr\u00f4lent le niveau de la rivi\u00e8re et il y a des endroits frais o\u00f9 l'habitat a \u00e9t\u00e9 restaur\u00e9, \u00e0 savoir l'habitat du poisson. C'est une zone de loisirs tr\u00e8s pris\u00e9e. Comme je l'ai mentionn\u00e9, le r\u00e9tablissement de la population de saumon a \u00e9galement r\u00e9tabli les p\u00eaches r\u00e9cr\u00e9atives. Les gens n'arrivent pas \u00e0 croire qu'ils se trouvent au milieu du d\u00e9sert de la vall\u00e9e de l'Okanagan et qu'ils p\u00eachent le saumon rouge sauvage. C'est une v\u00e9ritable b\u00e9n\u00e9diction pour l'\u00e9conomie et le bien-\u00eatre des gens qui y vivent.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2019/6/14/richard-cannings-2/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/richard-cannings/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4216/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10710942",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Fisheries Act",
        "fr": "La Loi sur les p\u00eaches"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2019/6/14/",
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