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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": "2021-12-16 10:20:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)",
"fr": "Mme Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6884113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is my great honour today to table a petition that is asking the Government of Canada to enact legislation to provide just transition.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6884114\" data-originallang=\"en\">Recognizing that we are in a climate emergency and a climate crisis, the petitioners ask that we address the crisis to reduce emissions in Canada and in the global south, that we commit to a jobs plan to help people transition to new jobs in a new economy, that we expand the social safety net and that we tax the ultrawealthy and corporations to help pay for that just transition.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6884113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai le grand honneur aujourd'hui de pr\u00e9senter une p\u00e9tition qui demande au gouvernement du Canada d'adopter des mesures l\u00e9gislatives sur la transition \u00e9quitable.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6884114\" data-originallang=\"en\">Reconnaissant que nous sommes dans une situation d'urgence climatique et que nous faisons face \u00e0 une crise climatique, les p\u00e9titionnaires demandent que nous prenions des mesures pour r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions au Canada et dans les pays du Sud, que nous nous engagions \u00e0 \u00e9tablir un plan pour aider les gens \u00e0 faire la transition vers un nouvel emploi dans une nouvelle \u00e9conomie, que nous \u00e9largissions le filet de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sociale et que nous augmentions les imp\u00f4ts des ultrariches et des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s pour contribuer \u00e0 financer cette transition \u00e9quitable.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2021/12/16/heather-mcpherson-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/heather-mcpherson/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4571/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11465615",
"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Petitions",
"fr": "P\u00e9titions"
},
"h3": {
"en": "The Environment",
"fr": "L'environnement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2021/12/16/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2021%2F12%2F16%2F"
}
}