Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2023-12-11 22:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Blake Desjarlais",
        "fr": "M. Blake Desjarlais"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8109737\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Chair, in relation to the Auditor General's report on the immense need for infrastructure and emergency preparedness supports for first nations communities, we found a troubling and disturbing trend. When the initial fund was established, it was modelled off the existing and current natural disaster scheme in Canada, which monitored at that time how frequent they were. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8109738\" data-originallang=\"en\">Today, the Auditor General is stating how dramatically different that reality is and how natural disasters due to climate change are being exacerbated. What were once normal storms are now extreme storms. What were once regular floods are now extreme floods. What were once regular fires are now extreme fires. The Auditor General is pointing to this and raising the alarm that first nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit communities must be prepared for the disastrous conditions that climate change presents to them, conditions that are not of their own doing but because of others.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8109739\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would invite the member to join us in supporting first nations in a fight to ensure they are better prepared for when natural disasters strike. Better yet, I ask him to help us support the fight against climate change, the most important fight to this generation, as it will destroy our planet and all peoples if we do not take it seriously.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8109737\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, nous avons constat\u00e9 une tendance troublante dans le rapport de la v\u00e9rificatrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale sur les immenses besoins en mati\u00e8re d'infrastructures et de pr\u00e9paration aux situations d'urgence dans les communaut\u00e9s des Premi\u00e8res Nations. Quand le fonds initial a \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9, il s\u2019inspirait du r\u00e9gime actuel en cas de catastrophe naturelle au Canada, qui, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque, surveillait la fr\u00e9quence des catastrophes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8109738\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, la v\u00e9rificatrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale indique \u00e0 quel point cette r\u00e9alit\u00e9 est diff\u00e9rente et \u00e0 quel point les catastrophes naturelles caus\u00e9es par les changements climatiques sont majeures. Les temp\u00eates normales d'autrefois sont maintenant des temp\u00eates extr\u00eames. Les inondations normales d'autrefois sont maintenant des inondations extr\u00eames. Les incendies normaux d'autrefois sont maintenant des incendies extr\u00eames. C'est ce que signale la v\u00e9rificatrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, et elle sonne l'alarme: les communaut\u00e9s des Premi\u00e8res Nations, des M\u00e9tis et des Inuits doivent \u00eatre pr\u00e9par\u00e9es aux situations catastrophiques qu'elles subiront \u00e0 cause des changements climatiques, des situations dont elles ne sont pas responsables, mais qui sont attribuables \u00e0 d'autres.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8109739\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'invite le d\u00e9put\u00e9 \u00e0 se joindre \u00e0 nous pour aider les Premi\u00e8res Nations \u00e0 mieux se pr\u00e9parer en cas de catastrophe naturelle. Mieux encore, je lui demande de nous aider \u00e0 soutenir la lutte contre les changements climatiques, la lutte la plus importante de notre g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, car les changements climatiques d\u00e9truiront notre plan\u00e8te et tous les peuples si nous ne les prenons pas au s\u00e9rieux.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2023/12/11/blake-desjarlais-15/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/blake-desjarlais/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4616/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12511194",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Indigenous Services",
        "fr": "Les services aux Autochtones"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2023/12/11/",
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}