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House Hansard - 4

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 25, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 4 - Nov/25/21
Ms. Raquel Dancho (Kildonan—St. Paul, CPC)
  • Nov/25/21 10:31:09 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the government House leader is making the argument that it is dangerous to travel to Ottawa because we are in a pandemic, yet it is the current government that opened up travel again. It is his government that called a federal election in the middle of the pandemic when the Delta wave was raging. The Liberals campaigned in hospitals during the election. The Prime Minister travelled across the country. His government just sent a delegation of 200 people across the ocean to Scotland for COP26. I am really not clear on his argument about it being dangerous to travel to Parliament to do our jobs, represent Canadians and hold the government accountable. It just does not match up.
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Context: House Hansard - 4 - Nov/25/21
Ms. Raquel Dancho (Kildonan—St. Paul, CPC)
  • Nov/25/21 6:05:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it was very special to see my hon. colleague with her beautiful baby. I want to congratulate her on showing that mothers can do both. My hon. colleague is taking issue with some colleagues in the House who are arguing that they do not want virtual Parliament because people do not want to come to work. The problem is that for basically the length of the pandemic, there was one Liberal member of Parliament in the House. Not all the other ones had COVID or were having babies. There was one member of Parliament here. Is the member comfortable with that? Does she think it is acceptable that people can just choose, for whatever reason, not to come? She made really good arguments for childbirth and other things, but there was one Liberal member in the House, no others, and I personally did not find that acceptable.
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