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{
    "time": "2025-06-04 15:45:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay (Saint-Hyacinthe\u2014Bagot\u2014Acton, BQ)",
        "fr": "Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay (Saint-Hyacinthe\u2014Bagot\u2014Acton, BQ)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8838117\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague's speech. He suggested that the pipeline is an element of nation-building. The new Canadian identity is taking shape. We neglected this concept for decades, but now the American giant is forcing us to define Canadian identity. Some believe this new identity should be shaped by a pipeline.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8838118\" data-originallang=\"fr\">If I understand correctly, Alberta's gambit was to convince people that it had separatist inclinations and then, at this week's first ministers' meeting, convince everyone that its pipeline construction plan is in the whole country's interest.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8838119\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Does my colleague agree that, if Quebec opposes this project, if Quebec's conditions are not met, the pipeline will not cross Quebec's territory?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8838117\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 avec attention le discours de mon coll\u00e8gue, qui semble faire de l'ol\u00e9oduc un \u00e9l\u00e9ment de <em>nation-building</em>. C'est la nouvelle identit\u00e9 canadienne qui se d\u00e9finit. Apr\u00e8s avoir n\u00e9glig\u00e9 ce concept pendant des d\u00e9cennies, on doit maintenant d\u00e9finir l'identit\u00e9 canadienne \u00e0 cause du g\u00e9ant am\u00e9ricain. Or, cette nouvelle identit\u00e9 reposerait sur un ol\u00e9oduc.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8838118\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Si je comprends bien, le jeu de l'Alberta a \u00e9t\u00e9 de faire croire qu'on avait des vell\u00e9it\u00e9s s\u00e9paratistes pour ensuite, \u00e0 la rencontre pancanadienne de cette semaine, r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire de l'ol\u00e9oduc une esp\u00e8ce de plan pancanadien, un plan de construction national. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8838119\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mon coll\u00e8gue est-il d'accord pour dire que, si le Qu\u00e9bec s'oppose \u00e0 ce projet, si les conditions du Qu\u00e9bec ne sont pas remplies, l'ol\u00e9oduc ne devra pas traverser le territoire qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2025/6/4/simon-pierre-savard-tremblay-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/simon-pierre-savard-tremblay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4718/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13083357",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Speech from the Throne",
        "fr": "Discours du Tr\u00f4ne"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply",
        "fr": "Reprise du d\u00e9bat sur l'Adresse en r\u00e9ponse"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2025/6/4/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F6%2F4%2F"
    }
}