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House Hansard - 75

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 19, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Sébastien Lemire (Abitibi—Témiscamingue, BQ)
  • May/19/22 11:18:22 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when it comes to the Liberals' management of the borders, I think we can agree that they dragged their feet a lot. They dragged their feet when it came time to close the border, and they are still dragging their feet on implementing an effective reopening plan. I would like to hear what the parliamentary secretary has to say about the government's border management, because the Auditor General issued a number of rather damning reports. They talk about a lack of testing at the borders, a lack of response to the emergence of new variants, a lack of quarantining when waves were at their peak, a lack of service in French from the companies responsible for screening, a lack of coordination with quarantine hotels, delays in providing screening test results, a shortage of staff to ensure compliance with home quarantine orders, and little or no follow-up with travellers who failed to follow quarantine orders. I would like to hear the parliamentary secretary's comments on that. She could read the notes that her party gave her to tell us how the government is responding to that report from the Auditor General.
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Sébastien Lemire (Abitibi—Témiscamingue, BQ)
  • May/19/22 1:40:59 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I have been listening closely to today's debate—
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Sébastien Lemire
  • May/19/22 1:41:31 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I have been listening with interest to today's debate and have been wondering something. I think it is obvious that the Liberals have failed repeatedly in terms of managing the borders and in the measures they wanted to implement over the past year, but I would like to know what the Conservatives would have done had they been in power. What kind of situation would we be in now? We are at the tail end of a sixth wave, quite possibly because measures were put in place and they worked. What state would the borders be in if the government were Conservative? What would they have done so differently?
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