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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": "2022-10-20 10:25:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Denis Trudel",
"fr": "M. Denis Trudel"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7353152\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, I am rather amazed to see how much my Conservative friends are off the mark when it comes to the economy. They are telling us that lowering the carbon tax will help Canadians live better. However, the opposite is true. The carbon tax is meant to fight climate change. It is not a perfect tool, but it is one of the best tools we have right now, according to the experts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7353153\" data-originallang=\"fr\">I would like to inform the leader of the Conservatives of what the UN says about the carbon tax. According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the number of climate-related natural disasters has more than doubled in the past decade compared with the 1980s. According to the World Meteorological Organization, between 2000 and 2019, 6,700 disasters cost the lives of more than 1 million people and affected 4.2 million more. In addition, they caused almost $3 trillion in global economic losses. That is why the carbon tax exists.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7353152\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je suis un peu ahuri de constater \u00e0 quel point mes amis conservateurs sont dans le champ en mati\u00e8re d'\u00e9conomie. Ils nous disent que, si on diminue la taxe sur le carbone, cela va aider les gens \u00e0 vivre. Pourtant, c'est le contraire. La taxe sur le carbone sert \u00e0 lutter contre les changements climatiques. Ce n'est pas un outil parfait, mais c'est un des meilleurs outils dont nous disposons en ce moment, comme le disent les experts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7353153\" data-originallang=\"fr\">J'aimerais mentionner au chef conservateur ce que l'ONU dit de la taxe sur le carbone. Selon le Bureau des Nations unies pour la pr\u00e9vention des catastrophes, le nombre des catastrophes naturelles li\u00e9es au climat a plus que doubl\u00e9 au cours de la derni\u00e8re d\u00e9cennie par rapport aux ann\u00e9es 1980. Selon l'Organisation m\u00e9t\u00e9orologique mondiale, de 2000 \u00e0 2019, 6 700 catastrophes ont co\u00fbt\u00e9 la vie \u00e0 plus de 1 million de personnes et ont touch\u00e9 4,2 millions de personnes. De surcro\u00eet, elles ont caus\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de 3 000 milliards de dollars de pertes \u00e9conomiques mondiales. C'est pour cela que la taxe sur le carbone existe.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/10/20/denis-trudel-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/denis-trudel/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4558/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11863183",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Tax Exemption on Home Heating Fuel",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'exon\u00e9ration de taxe pour les combustibles de chauffage domestique"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/10/20/",
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}