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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": "2022-05-09 19:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Elizabeth May",
"fr": "Mme Elizabeth May"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7133941\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I am not asking about prejudging the process. I am asking, is anyone going to hold this foreign multinational to account for proceeding to begin building a project before it has a permit? That is illegal. Someone should step up. The double standard here is one that really worries me and bothers me. Do members think that an indigenous person, an Inuit person, under court orders in a criminal justice proceeding could avoid the restrictions in the way a foreign corporation can avoid restrictions on its activities until it has a permit? This is a double standard and it should bother the parliamentary secretary as much as it bothers me. What is available to hold Baffinland to account for building and contracting for a second phase, and even thinking about a third phase, when it does not have a permit?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7133941\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je ne suis pas en train de pr\u00e9sumer de l'issue du processus. Je me demande si quelqu'un va demander des comptes \u00e0 cette multinationale pour avoir entam\u00e9 un projet avant m\u00eame d'avoir obtenu un permis. C'est ill\u00e9gal. Quelqu'un devrait intervenir. Ce syst\u00e8me de deux poids, deux mesures m'inqui\u00e8te et me pr\u00e9occupe beaucoup. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s croient-ils qu'un Autochtone ou un Inuit vis\u00e9 par une ordonnance d'une cour p\u00e9nale pourrait se soustraire \u00e0 des restrictions de la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on qu'une entreprise \u00e9trang\u00e8re peut \u00e9viter de voir ses activit\u00e9s restreintes jusqu'\u00e0 l'obtention d'un permis? C'est un syst\u00e8me de deux poids, deux mesures dont la secr\u00e9taire parlementaire devrait se soucier autant que moi. Quelles sont les mesures pr\u00e9vues pour obliger Baffinland \u00e0 rendre des comptes pour avoir lanc\u00e9 une deuxi\u00e8me phase et octroy\u00e9 des contrats \u00e0 cette fin, et pour avoir m\u00eame song\u00e9 \u00e0 une troisi\u00e8me phase, alors que cette soci\u00e9t\u00e9 n'a m\u00eame pas de permis?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/5/9/elizabeth-may-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/elizabeth-may/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4108/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11672490",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion D'Ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Natural Resources",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/5/9/",
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}
}