Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2024-01-29 19:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Blake Desjarlais",
        "fr": "M. Blake Desjarlais"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8166994\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, it is true that both municipalities and provincial governments do bear responsibility. Actually, part of the report's critical recommendations was to look at ways the federal government could look at provincial partners in particular, but there were some municipal examples, for big cities in particular. Members may recall that there was a national emergency facing us during the same time as we were hearing this. That was the dramatic infrastructure devastation we saw in British Columbia brought on by floods as a result of climate change.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8166995\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Floods, of course, produce extreme changes, not only in the existing water table that is present in British Columbia but also in the output costs of very good products we make there, like wine products and other agricultural goods in British Columbia. That is an example in which we see a solution in asking for a framework to work with provinces so that at a time of an emergency like that, we open up corridors of transport. That is one of the recommendations I agree with, to ensure that we actually get goods from one province to the other.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8166996\" data-originallang=\"en\">If members can bear with me, I will add this. It is a true fact that at the time of the huge floods in British Columbia, which I know many families are still bearing grief for, it was actually companies that came forward to redirect the supply of goods from the northern corridor that supplied access to Alberta. My home province would have been cut off without such goodwill from CN and the people who allowed us to do that.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8166997\" data-originallang=\"en\">We need to go further than that. We cannot just wait and bet on the goodwill of our neighbours and those actors in our country. We need to be more proactive. The solution found in this report is to look at our framework, to recommend to the provinces and the federal government that we come together on such a strategy, because it is true: We do not bear all of the jurisdictional powers at the federal level that would make possible the emergency levers to relieve a situation like a supply chain crunch.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8166994\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il est vrai que les municipalit\u00e9s et les gouvernements provinciaux ont une responsabilit\u00e9. En fait, le rapport recommande notamment que le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral cherche \u00e0 conclure des partenariats avec les provinces, mais il a aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 question des municipalit\u00e9s, des grandes villes en particulier. Les d\u00e9put\u00e9s se rappelleront peut-\u00eatre que nous \u00e9tions confront\u00e9s \u00e0 une urgence nationale au moment des t\u00e9moignages. Je parle de l'effroyable d\u00e9vastation des infrastructures en Colombie-Britannique caus\u00e9e par les inondations dues aux changements climatiques. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8166995\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les inondations provoquent bien entendu des changements extr\u00eames, non seulement dans la nappe phr\u00e9atique de la Colombie-Britannique, mais aussi dans le prix des excellents produits provenant de cette province, comme le vin et d'autres marchandises agricoles. Voil\u00e0 un exemple de solution, o\u00f9 l'on demande la cr\u00e9ation d'un cadre de travail avec les provinces afin qu'en cas d'une urgence semblable, on ouvre des corridors de transport. C'est une des recommandations que j'appuie afin que les marchandises puissent circuler d'une province \u00e0 l'autre. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8166996\" data-originallang=\"en\">Si les d\u00e9put\u00e9s me le permettent, j'ajouterais ceci. Lorsque les \u00e9normes inondations sont survenues en Colombie-Britannique \u2014 et je sais que de nombreuses familles en subissent toujours les cons\u00e9quences \u2014, ce sont les entreprises qui sont intervenues pour rediriger l'approvisionnement en marchandises de sorte qu'il emprunte le corridor du Nord, reli\u00e9 \u00e0 l'Alberta. Si le CN et les divers responsables n'avaient pas fait preuve de tant de bonne volont\u00e9, ma province n'aurait pas pu \u00eatre approvisionn\u00e9e.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8166997\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il faut aller plus loin. On ne peut pas compter simplement sur la bonne volont\u00e9 de nos voisins et des intervenants canadiens. Nous devons \u00eatre plus proactifs. La solution propos\u00e9e dans ce rapport consiste \u00e0 examiner notre cadre et \u00e0 mobiliser les provinces et le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral pour d\u00e9finir une strat\u00e9gie, car c'est la r\u00e9alit\u00e9: le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral n'a pas tous les pouvoirs voulus pour d\u00e9ployer les leviers d'urgence n\u00e9cessaires en cas de probl\u00e8me comme une rupture de la cha\u00eene d'approvisionnement.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/1/29/blake-desjarlais-8/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/blake-desjarlais/",
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    "source_id": "12534410",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Orders of the Day",
        "fr": "Ordre du jour"
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    "h2": {
        "en": "Committees of the House",
        "fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
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    "h3": {
        "en": "Public Accounts",
        "fr": "Comptes publics"
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    "document_url": "/debates/2024/1/29/",
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