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House Hansard - 36

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 21, 2022 07:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Ms. Leah Taylor Roy (Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, Lib.)
  • Feb/21/22 7:16:04 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to begin by adding my thanks to yours for the people who are here supporting us today.
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Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Ms. Leah Taylor Roy
  • Feb/21/22 7:16:22 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I will do that. I would like to begin by thanking all of the people who are here supporting us this morning and the men and women in uniform who have been working tirelessly all weekend to apply the law we have invoked. In particular, I would like to thank the York Regional Police, which was here and which serves my riding of Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill. The member discussed the definition of the rule of law as defined by the United Nations, which I thought was very clarifying. I was wondering if there is anything in the Emergencies Act that has been invoked that the member feels in any way impedes that definition of the rule of law.
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Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Ms. Leah Taylor Roy (Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, Lib.)
  • Feb/21/22 12:11:55 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to address the question the member just asked: Will we continue to pretend that we are living in the past? It seems that the member opposite and his Conservative colleagues are, in fact, living in the past as they continually reference the War Measures Act and comments Tommy Douglas made about that act in 1970. We are here to debate a very different act, the Emergencies Act, which was introduced, in fact, to address the very concerns the member raised with the War Measures Act and, may I remind the member opposite, by a Conservative government. Why do the member opposite and his colleagues continually reference an act that is no longer on the books in Canada? They are creating confusion, anxiety and concern among people, when we really should be focused on the act we are debating today, which is the Emergencies Act.
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