{"id":79705,"date":"2022-01-31T13:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=79705"},"modified":"2022-01-31T13:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:49:44","slug":"first-meeting-for-a-green-and-prosperous-pontiac-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/first-meeting-for-a-green-and-prosperous-pontiac-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"First meeting for a \u201cGreen and Prosperous Pontiac\u201d this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiac MP Sophie Chatel spoke with CHIP 101.9 about the start of her \u201cGreen and Prosperous Pontiac\u201d initiative that will get underway this week. She explained that the goal of her project, which <a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"https:\/\/sophiechatel.libparl.ca\/2021\/11\/28\/for-a-green-and-prosperous-pontiac\/?lang=en\" rel=\"external\">launched<\/a>\u00a0in late November, was to prepare the region to respond to the \u201cfight against climate change, the post-pandemic economic recovery and the achievement of the net zero target by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-79705-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-green-initiative.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-green-initiative.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-green-initiative.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The first roundtable meeting to start the initiative will take place January 31 and will focus on agriculture. Chatel said that the discussion will be between local farmers and agricultural experts, as well as Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-79705-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-round-table.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-round-table.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-round-table.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>She said that there will be several more round-tables throughout the year focused on different sectors, with the goal of publishing the results in a \u201cgreen book\u201d early next year. The different sectors include forestry, waste management, housing and more. For more information on the initiative, visit their\u00a0<a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outaouaisvert.ca\/\" rel=\"external\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Standing committee on finance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chatel also spoke briefly about her work on the House of Commons standing committee on finance, saying that they were looking very closely at the causes and effects of inflation.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-79705-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-inflation.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-inflation.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clip-Sophie-Chatel-inflation.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>She added that the committee would be starting pre-budget consultation when parliament begins sitting again on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Chatel is available below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiac MP Sophie Chatel spoke with CHIP 101.9 about the start of her \u201cGreen and Prosperous Pontiac\u201d initiative that will get underway this week. She explained that the goal of her project, which launched\u00a0in late November, was to prepare the region to respond to the \u201cfight against climate change, the post-pandemic economic recovery and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":79716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,225],"tags":[956,4225,1507,10113],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79705"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=79705"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=79705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}