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{
"time": "2026-01-27 12:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Adam van Koeverden",
"fr": "L\u2019hon. Adam van Koeverden"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9120591\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, just a couple of days ago, there was a fad on Instagram where everybody was looking back to 2016. The Conservatives were saying exactly the same stuff in 2016 that they are saying today. That was 10 years ago. They are still talking down climate action. They are still ignoring lower-income Canadians. They still think climate change is a hoax. Some things never change.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9120592\" data-originallang=\"en\">What has not changed in the last year is that the Conservatives do not have any new ideas. This motion is literally, word for word, their platform, which was soundly rejected by Canadians last year. It sounds as though in the last year, the only thing they have been willing to do is parrot their talking points and read the speeches given to them by the <a data-HoCid=\"322132\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">Conservative leader</a>'s staff. It would be nice to see a bit of creativity, individuality or individual thought from the Conservative members, but I think that is too much to ask.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9120591\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, il y a quelques jours \u00e0 peine, une tendance s'est r\u00e9pandue sur Instagram: tout le monde se rem\u00e9morait l'ann\u00e9e 2016. Or, les conservateurs tiennent exactement les m\u00eames propos aujourd'hui qu'en 2016. C'\u00e9tait il y a 10 ans. Ils continuent de d\u00e9nigrer les mesures de lutte contre les changements climatiques. Ils continuent d'ignorer les Canadiens \u00e0 faible revenu. Ils pensent encore que le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne des changements climatiques est un canular. Certaines choses ne changent jamais.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9120592\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a une chose qui n'a pas chang\u00e9 au cours de la derni\u00e8re ann\u00e9e: les conservateurs n'ont toujours pas de nouvelles id\u00e9es. Cette motion reprend mot pour mot leur programme \u00e9lectoral, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 rejet\u00e9 cat\u00e9goriquement par les Canadiens l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re. On dirait qu'au cours de la derni\u00e8re ann\u00e9e, les conservateurs se sont content\u00e9s de r\u00e9p\u00e9ter les m\u00eames paroles vides et de lire les discours qui leur ont \u00e9t\u00e9 remis par le personnel du <a data-HoCid=\"322132\" href=\"/politicians/pierre-poilievre/\" title=\"Pierre Poilievre\">chef conservateur</a>. Ce serait bien de voir un peu de cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9, d'individualit\u00e9 ou de r\u00e9flexion personnelle de la part des d\u00e9put\u00e9s conservateurs, mais je pense que c'est trop leur demander.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/1/27/adam-van-koeverden-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/adam-van-koeverden/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4734/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13317173",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Canadian Economic Sovereignty",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 La souverainet\u00e9 \u00e9conomique du Canada"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/1/27/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F1%2F27%2F"
}
}