{"time": "2024-10-08 14:10:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan\u2014West Kootenay, NDP)", "fr": "M. Richard Cannings (Okanagan-Sud\u2014Kootenay-Ouest, NPD)"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8597898\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, the third report on \u201cThe State of Canada's Birds\u201d was released today by Birds Canada and Environment Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8597899\" data-originallang=\"en\">Birds are literally the canaries in the coal mine for our environmental health, and previous reports from 2012 and 2019 raised some serious red flags. Today's report shows that some of those concerns are getting worse. For instance, grassland birds have declined by two-thirds since 1970, so something is clearly going wrong in our grasslands.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8597900\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, these reports also show that, when we know what is going wrong and have the political will to fix it, we can see dramatically positive results. Hawks, eagles and falcons have increased by a third since 1970 because we banned DDT. Waterfowl have also increased because we started conserving their habitats.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8597901\" data-originallang=\"en\">We know all this about bird populations because of the thousands of talented volunteers who go out every day to count birds. These citizen scientists have given us an incredibly powerful measure of the health of our forests, grasslands and waters.</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8597898\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, Oiseaux Canada et Environnement Canada ont publi\u00e9 aujourd'hui leur troisi\u00e8me rapport, intitul\u00e9 <em>L'\u00e9tat des populations d'oiseaux du Canada</em>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8597899\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les oiseaux sont litt\u00e9ralement les canaris dans la mine de charbon quand il est question de l'hygi\u00e8ne de notre milieu, et les rapports pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents de 2012 et de 2019 ont soulev\u00e9 de s\u00e9rieuses pr\u00e9occupations. Le rapport publi\u00e9 aujourd'hui montre que certaines de ces pr\u00e9occupations s'aggravent. Par exemple, la population d'oiseaux de prairies a diminu\u00e9 des deux tiers depuis 1970. Il y a donc manifestement quelque chose qui ne va pas dans nos prairies.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8597900\" data-originallang=\"en\">N\u00e9anmoins, ces rapports montrent \u00e9galement que, quand nous savons ce qui cloche et que nous avons la volont\u00e9 politique d'y rem\u00e9dier, nous pouvons obtenir des r\u00e9sultats fort positifs. Ainsi, la population de rapaces, d'aigles et de faucons a augment\u00e9 du tiers depuis 1970 parce que nous avons interdit le DDT. La population de sauvagine a \u00e9galement augment\u00e9 parce que nous avons commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 assurer la conservation de son habitat.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8597901\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous disposons de toutes ces donn\u00e9es au sujet des populations d'oiseaux gr\u00e2ce aux milliers de b\u00e9n\u00e9voles talentueux qui vont chaque jour d\u00e9nombrer les oiseaux. Ces scientifiques amateurs nous procurent une mesure incroyablement r\u00e9v\u00e9latrice de la sant\u00e9 de nos for\u00eats, de nos prairies et de nos eaux.</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2024/10/8/richard-cannings-1/", "politician_url": "/politicians/richard-cannings/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4216/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "12914085", "h1": {"en": "Statements by Members", "fr": "D\u00e9clarations de d\u00e9put\u00e9s"}, "h2": {"en": "Bird Populations", "fr": "Les populations d'oiseaux"}, "document_url": "/debates/2024/10/8/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F10%2F8%2F"}}