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House Hansard - 60

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 28, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 60 - Apr/28/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Apr/28/22 10:11:20 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the point of order raised by my colleague, the House leader of the official opposition. I would like to reserve the right to respond at a later date.
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Context: House Hansard - 60 - Apr/28/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Apr/28/22 10:17:33 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to reserve the Bloc's right to respond at a later date.
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Context: House Hansard - 60 - Apr/28/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Apr/28/22 12:35:40 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, medical assistance in dying is an important issue to the Bloc Québécois and to Quebec. We have worked hard at parliamentary committee and saw that we would not have enough time to do all the work that such a sensitive topic demands. That is why the Bloc Québécois wanted to move the deadline for tabling the report to October 17. The other parties, some of which were not convinced, dragged their feet. The government decided to include this in a motion that muzzles the opposition, when it was unnecessary to do that since Standing Order 27 allows sitting hours to be extended. It has brought out the heavy artillery, complete with a gift to the Bloc Québécois that would extend the deadline for the report on medical assistance in dying to October 17. That is like the government asking us if we like honey and us saying yes, but then the government adds arsenic to the honey and tells us to eat up. Why did the government choose to muzzle the opposition when it could have simply used Standing Order 27?
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Context: House Hansard - 60 - Apr/28/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Apr/28/22 2:28:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the House demanded that the government appear in committee to shed some light on the worrisome dismissal of scientists in Winnipeg. The Liberals did not comply, however, and are using their alliance with the NDP to create their own committee for just the two of them, for which they can set their own rules, produce their own report and announce their own findings. They are doing all of this without the agreement of the two main opposition parties. That is not democratic, nor is it transparent. Does the government realize that its alliance with the NDP does not authorize it to create a parallel Parliament and set its own rules?
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Context: House Hansard - 60 - Apr/28/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Apr/28/22 2:29:35 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, not one MP here wants to compromise national security, but no citizen wants their government's actions to be kept secret. It is impossible to make these things up. In June, the Liberals took legal action against the Speaker of the House to avoid having to turn over documents. That is a big deal. Today, instead of handing them over to committee members who are already responsible for this type of thing, they want to create their own committee and collude with the NDP to make their own rules, while leaving the opposition out in the cold. What kind of banana republic is this anyway?
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