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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2020-02-20 16:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Patrick Weiler",
"fr": "M. Patrick Weiler"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6054763\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, it is absolutely critical that we bring the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Canadian law. We have committed to do it this year. We supported that in the last Parliament, but it died in the Senate. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6054764\" data-originallang=\"en\">When we look at environmental assessments of industrial projects as we are implementing the articles of UNDRIP, it creates new opportunities to work with first nations and give them an opportunity to participate in the decision-making in their territories. Those ideas have already been instilled in the new Impact Assessment Act. As we move forward and implement this, it will cause major changes in a lot of our federal laws. It is something that is long overdue.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6054763\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, nous devons absolument int\u00e9grer la D\u00e9claration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones aux lois canadiennes. Nous voulions que le projet de loi soit adopt\u00e9, mais il est mort au Feuilleton avant d'\u00eatre adopt\u00e9 par le S\u00e9nat lors de la derni\u00e8re l\u00e9gislature. Nous nous sommes engag\u00e9s \u00e0 le faire adopter cette ann\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6054764\" data-originallang=\"en\">Lorsque nous appliquons les principes de la D\u00e9claration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones aux \u00e9valuations environnementales des projets industriels, nous nous donnons de nouvelles occasions de collaborer avec les Premi\u00e8res Nations et nous leur permettons de participer aux d\u00e9cisions concernant leur territoire. Ces principes font d\u00e9j\u00e0 partie de la nouvelle Loi sur l'\u00e9valuation d'impact. En g\u00e9n\u00e9ralisant leur application, nous apporterons de profonds changements \u00e0 de nombreuses lois f\u00e9d\u00e9rales. Il est grand temps que cela se fasse.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2020/2/20/patrick-weiler-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/patrick-weiler/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4565/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "10766836",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Coastal GasLink Project",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 Le projet Coastal GasLink"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2020/2/20/",
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}
}