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{
    "time": "2024-02-01 19:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, PCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8172374\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, I believe in Canada. It is nice to stand up here and talk about how I believe that Canada is greater than the sum of its parts.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172375\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of its parts, my home province of Alberta, is such an important part of our Confederation. It provides so much food, not just to Canada but to the world. It provides energy, not just to Canada but to the world. Sometimes I feel like my province is forgotten in some of the discussions we have here.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172376\" data-originallang=\"en\">One of the areas that is very near and dear to my heart but also very near and dear to the economy, not just of Alberta but to the entire country, is water. Right now, Alberta is looking at planning for a period of drought and trying to figure out how we provide that food and energy, contribute to Canada's economy, global food security and global energy security, and also deal with the potential of a very large water shortage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172377\" data-originallang=\"en\">This should be an important part of Canada's environmental plan, yet the federal government has been not relatively silent but very silent on this very important issue. It is February. This is going to be a problem come summer. The time for the government to have a plan to deal with this and to partner with my province is now. There should not be any partisan politics to this. The federal government should be actively seeking to help my province and come up with a way to support and plan for what is clearly going to be a large problem that affects the entire country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172378\" data-originallang=\"en\">Now, in February, before we deal with the outcome of this issue, my question to the government is simple. What is it doing to assist the Province of Alberta, farmers, residents and industry in dealing with this drought situation?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8172374\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je crois au Canada. C'est un plaisir de prendre la parole \u00e0 la Chambre et de dire que, selon moi, le Canada est un tout sup\u00e9rieur \u00e0 la somme de ses parties.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172375\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'une de ces parties, l'Alberta, ma province, joue vraiment un r\u00f4le crucial au sein de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration. Elle produit \u00e9norm\u00e9ment de nourriture non seulement pour le Canada, mais aussi pour le reste de la plan\u00e8te. Elle fournit de l'\u00e9nergie au Canada et au reste de la plan\u00e8te. J'ai parfois l'impression qu'on oublie ma province pendant certaines des discussions qui ont lieu ici.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172376\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un \u00e9l\u00e9ment qui rev\u00eat une immense importance pour moi ainsi que pour l'\u00e9conomie, non seulement l'\u00e9conomie de l'Alberta mais aussi celle de tout le Canada, c'est l'eau. \u00c0 l'heure actuelle, l'Alberta s'efforce de planifier en vue d'une p\u00e9riode de s\u00e9cheresse et tente de voir comment elle pourra \u00e0 la fois composer avec la possibilit\u00e9 d'une tr\u00e8s grave p\u00e9nurie d'eau, fournir des aliments et de l'\u00e9nergie et contribuer \u00e0 l'\u00e9conomie du pays, \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire mondiale et \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique mondiale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172377\" data-originallang=\"en\">Cela devrait \u00eatre un \u00e9l\u00e9ment important du plan environnemental du Canada. Pourtant, le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral a \u00e9t\u00e9 non pas relativement silencieux, mais muet sur cette question tr\u00e8s importante. Nous sommes en f\u00e9vrier. Nous devrons faire face \u00e0 ce probl\u00e8me l'\u00e9t\u00e9 prochain. Le moment est venu pour le gouvernement de proposer un plan pour composer avec cette situation et de travailler en partenariat avec ma province. On ne devrait pas en faire un enjeu partisan. Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral devrait chercher activement \u00e0 aider ma province \u00e0 trouver des solutions et \u00e0 pr\u00e9voir des mesures pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ce qui deviendra manifestement un probl\u00e8me de taille qui touchera l'ensemble du pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8172378\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aujourd'hui, en f\u00e9vrier, avant que nous nous penchions sur les cons\u00e9quences de ce probl\u00e8me, j'aurais une simple question pour le gouvernement. Que fait-il pour aider l'Alberta, les agriculteurs, les r\u00e9sidants et l'industrie \u00e0 composer avec cette s\u00e9cheresse?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2024/2/1/michelle-rempel-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/michelle-rempel/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4385/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "12549910",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
        "fr": "Motion d\u2019ajournement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Carbon Pricing",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2024/2/1/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F2%2F1%2F"
    }
}