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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": "2021-03-23 19:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Chris Bittle",
"fr": "M. Chris Bittle"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6578044\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, Canada is committed to ensuring that exports of plastic waste have regulations. That is why we have accepted and implemented the Basel Convention amendments on plastic waste. Canada and the U.S. have measures in place for the environmentally sound management of that waste. We are leveraging the mechanism available under the Basel Convention to continue to trade with the U.S. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6578045\" data-originallang=\"en\">The arrangement between Canada and the U.S. does not override regulatory obligations on Canadian exporters. Any waste covered by the convention shipped from Canada to a party to the Basel Convention is subject to our regulation and requires prior consent. Our government is acting responsibly by ensuring that countries consent to imports while fostering recycling and reducing plastic waste landfilling.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6578044\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le Canada tient \u00e0 ce que l'exportation des d\u00e9chets plastiques soit encadr\u00e9e par une r\u00e9glementation. C'est pourquoi nous avons accept\u00e9 et mis en \u0153uvre les modifications \u00e0 la Convention de B\u00e2le concernant les d\u00e9chets plastiques. Des mesures en place au Canada et aux \u00c9tats-Unis assurent une saine gestion environnementale de ces d\u00e9chets. Nous tirons parti du m\u00e9canisme pr\u00e9vu par la Convention de B\u00e2le pour continuer nos \u00e9changes commerciaux avec les \u00c9tats-Unis. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6578045\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'entente entre le Canada et les \u00c9tats-Unis ne pr\u00e9vaut pas sur les obligations r\u00e9glementaires des exportateurs canadiens. Tous les d\u00e9chets couverts par la Convention de B\u00e2le qui sont exp\u00e9di\u00e9s du Canada vers un \u00c9tat partie \u00e0 la Convention doivent respecter nos r\u00e8glements et requi\u00e8rent un consentement pr\u00e9alable. Le gouvernement agit de fa\u00e7on responsable: il s'assure que les pays consentent aux importations et voit, en parall\u00e8le, \u00e0 favoriser le recyclage et \u00e0 r\u00e9duire la quantit\u00e9 de d\u00e9chets plastiques qui aboutissent dans les sites d'enfouissement.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2021/3/23/chris-bittle-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/chris-bittle/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4341/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11201941",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "The Environment",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2021/3/23/",
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}
}