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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2026-02-26 10:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Charles Sousa",
"fr": "Charles Sousa"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9187932\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the member opposite may or may not know that CANDU reactors and the corporation are within my riding. I have met with representatives of Candu Energy on a number of occasions. We talked about small modular reactors providing supports and electricity to those remote communities in the far north that rely primarily on diesel, which is extremely dirty, to provide greater sources of, and more secure, electricity in those areas. As we move into major projects around Canada, we are going to need some greater degree of energy.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9187933\" data-originallang=\"en\">I can say that world markets are looking to Canada-made reactors and that our CANDU reactors, not just the small modular reactors but our CANDUs, are sought after because of their ability, effectiveness, competitiveness and safety measures. I support our nuclear program in Canada for that very reason.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9187932\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 d'en face sait peut-\u00eatre que les r\u00e9acteurs CANDU et l'entreprise qui les fabrique se trouvent dans ma circonscription. J'ai rencontr\u00e9 des repr\u00e9sentants de Candu Energy \u00e0 plusieurs reprises. Nous avons parl\u00e9 des petits r\u00e9acteurs modulaires qui fournissent des services \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques et de l'\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 aux collectivit\u00e9s \u00e9loign\u00e9es du Grand Nord qui d\u00e9pendent principalement du di\u00e9sel, un combustible extr\u00eamement polluant. Ils fournissent des sources d'\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 plus puissantes et plus s\u00fbres dans ces r\u00e9gions. \u00c0 mesure que nous entreprendrons de grands projets partout au Canada, nous aurons besoin de plus d'\u00e9nergie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9187933\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je peux dire que les march\u00e9s mondiaux se tournent vers les r\u00e9acteurs fabriqu\u00e9s au Canada et que les r\u00e9acteurs CANDU, et pas seulement les petits r\u00e9acteurs modulaires, sont recherch\u00e9s en raison de leurs capacit\u00e9s, de leur efficacit\u00e9, de leur comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et de leurs mesures de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. C'est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment pour cette raison que j'appuie le programme nucl\u00e9aire du Canada.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/2/26/charles-sousa-7/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/charles-sousa/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4653/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13378413",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1",
"fr": "Loi no 1 d'ex\u00e9cution du budget de 2025"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/2/26/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F2%2F26%2F"
}
}