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House Hansard - 36

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 21, 2022 07:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Mr. Michael Cooper (St. Albert—Edmonton, CPC)
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Mr. Speaker, the member is quite right that the conditions that must be satisfied in order to invoke the Emergencies Act were not met and were not even close to being met. Member after member on the side opposite, and their friends in the NDP, downplay and minimize the exceptional nature of this legislation. This is legislation of last resort that provides extraordinary powers to the government that infringe on the civil liberties of Canadians. We are talking about seizing property and freezing bank accounts without due process. Given how the government has abused its power in invoking this act when the threshold was not being met, could the member speak to the dangerous precedent that the government has set in normalizing the invocation of these extraordinary powers?
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