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House Hansard - 36

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 21, 2022 07:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Ms. Michelle Ferreri (Peterborough—Kawartha, CPC)
  • Feb/21/22 7:12:09 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I can feel a lot of stress and tension as we debate this. Do you respect the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which I assume you do? I am assuming everybody—
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Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Ms. Michelle Ferreri
  • Feb/21/22 7:12:36 a.m.
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I apologize, Madam Speaker. I would ask if my colleague respects the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which I assume all of us do in the House, and how he would respond to what it said, as follows: “This use of the Emergencies Act is unnecessary, unjustifiable and unconstitutional. The high threshold to invoke the act has not been met. It is in light of all these violations of civil liberties that we will be taking the government to court.” I am curious what the hon. member has to say about that.
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Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Mr. Ted Falk (Provencher, CPC)
  • Feb/21/22 12:15:32 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my friend for Edmonton Manning for an excellent speech. I took note particularly of a comment the member made about following the science and this Prime Minister's refusal to follow the science when it does not fit his narrative. I am wondering what message my colleague would give to NDP members who have always been champions of civil liberties and who are now seeing the liberties of Canadians trampled under foot. What would he say to the NDP about voting with their conscience and about remaining true to the values that they say are important?
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Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Mrs. Kelly Block (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, CPC)
  • Feb/21/22 3:02:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is an example of a failure of leadership. Legal experts, civil liberties organizations and many others are sounding the alarm, stating that emergency legislation should not be normalized, that it threatens our democracy and charter liberties. With the support of the NDP, the federal government is ordering financial institutions to freeze the bank accounts of Canadians who do not agree with it. Why are the Liberals and the NDP so willing to trample over the rights of the citizens they represent?
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Context: House Hansard - 36 - Feb/21/22
Hon. Michael Chong
  • Feb/21/22 4:04:19 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, three of the safeguards that have been put into the act are the three criteria that the government must meet in order to trigger a public order emergency. The first is a threat or the actual use of violence to achieve a political, religious or ideological objective. The second is a threat to the health, safety and lives of Canadians that is beyond the capacity of a province to deal with, or alternatively that there is a threat to the sovereignty, territorial integrity or security of this country. The last is that there is no other law in Canada, federal or provincial, that could effectively deal with the situation. Those three criteria are safeguards in preventing intrusions into civil liberties.
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