44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 14, 2022 10:00AM
- Jun/14/22 2:23:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there is no misunderstanding, and this is too important to try to skew the words. This is vitally important.
No police officers or agencies asked for the act to be invoked. The Minister of Public Safety said that they did. He was not telling the truth. He misled Canadians. He cannot be trusted. He has lost the confidence of this House to do his job.
Has he lost the confidence of the Prime Minister? Will the Prime Minister ask him to resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:24:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister has abdicated and failed in his responsibility to be truthful with Canadians. He is a lawyer and a former federal prosecutor. He knows full well how to choose his words carefully. He knows full well how to be precise in his language, yet he said over and over again that law enforcement requested the Emergencies Act. Those were his words. We now know his words were not true.
How can the Prime Minister have any faith in the minister? Will he ask the minister to resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:33:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have a Minister of Public Safety who has repeatedly said that the serious decision to invoke the Emergencies Act was made at the request of police authorities.
All the police forces deny having requested the Emergencies Act. The minister knows this, and as a former Crown prosecutor, he knows the importance of telling the truth and nothing but the truth.
Since he cannot take back what he said and a major decision about civil liberties was made, will he now do the honourable thing and resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:34:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Emergencies Act cannot be invoked when other legislation can do the job.
The Minister of Public Safety knew that, which is why he justified his decision by stating repeatedly that the police had requested these extraordinary powers. No police officer, police force, chief of police or commissioner has confirmed the minister's assertion. There is no misunderstanding. This Liberal minister no longer has the confidence of Canadians.
When will he be honest with Canadians and resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:35:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Public Safety continues to spread misinformation and cannot be trusted. As a former Crown prosecutor, he knows full well that his choice of words matters. He would have also known, when invoking the Emergencies Act in Canada, that everything he said would be tested against the law. However, the minister cannot find anyone to corroborate his story that law enforcement asked for the Emergencies Act to be invoked.
The only matter left unresolved is the minister's resignation, so when will he resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:37:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, in 2015, the Prime Minister outlined his ministerial standards of conduct in his “Open and Accountable Government” document, and let me quote what it said:
To be worthy of Canadians’ trust, we must always act with integrity. This is not merely a matter of adopting the right rules, or of ensuring technical compliance with those rules. As Ministers, you and your staff must uphold the highest standards of honesty and impartiality....
The Minister of Public Safety no longer meets any of those standards. When will he resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:38:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what is wrong is that the Liberals froze bank accounts, discarded our democracy and ignored our Charter of Rights, all predicated on a fabrication. Invoking the Emergencies Act was an unprecedented power grab, all based on misinformation. No police force ever asked for the Emergencies Act to be invoked. The fact is that the public safety minister has been caught misleading Parliament and deceiving Canadians.
Will he do the honourable thing? Will he do the right thing? Will he resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:39:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, here is a fact. On April 28, the public safety minister said, “It is also a fact that we invoked the Emergencies Act only after police forces agreed.” We do not believe him, Canadians do not believe him and police forces do not believe him. They do not believe him, because this never happened. No police force ever asked for the Emergencies Act to be invoked.
What has happened, and this is the fact, is that the public safety minister has been caught misleading Canadians and misleading Parliament. No more talking points and no more skirting the blame. Will he do the right thing and resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:46:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what is critical here is getting to the truth, because the truth is critical for the parliamentary committee investigating the invocation of the act. The truth is also critical for the judicial inquiry charged with investigating the rationale for invoking the act.
What is known is that the truth has been corrupted by the Minister of Public Safety. He knows his words matter. Making false claims in trying to justify invoking the Emergencies Act matters. It matters a lot.
Will the minister do the right thing, the honourable thing, and resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:48:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister talks about things being egregious and unprecedented, and what is unprecedented is the lengths the minister will go to spread his disinformation and continue to try to divide and stigmatize people the government disagrees with. It is the Liberals' pattern to try to punish Canadians who disagree with them.
On April 26, he said it was the advice of law enforcement that he followed to invoke the Emergencies Act, but we know that is not true. We heard it directly from police.
Will the minister come clean with Canadians, tell them that invoking emergency powers was actually a Liberal power grab and resign today?
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- Jun/14/22 2:55:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let me quote what Andrew Coyne wrote in The Globe and Mail: “If the Liberals were trying to convince people they had something to hide with regard to the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, they could hardly do a better job.”
The situation is serious. The Minister of Public Safety misled Canadians. He must resign. When will he step down?
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- Jun/14/22 2:56:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Andrew Coyne also wrote, and I quote, “well, there is a penalty for this sort of thing. And the penalty, in the conventions of Westminster-style parliaments, is resignation.” The minister basically misled Canadians.
When Jody Wilson‑Raybould was minister, she acted according to her principles. The Minister of Public Safety has no principles. When will he resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:56:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on April 26, the Minister of Public Safety said, with regard to emergency measures, “I don't want to speak for every last serving member of law enforcement, but there was a very strong consensus that we needed to invoke the act.”
We now know that there was no such consensus at any time. He has misled Canadians. He no longer deserves the confidence of the House.
Will the minister do the only honourable thing left to do: apologize and resign?
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- Jun/14/22 2:58:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is always someone else's fault. Being a minister comes with great responsibility.
The minister stated several times, “It was on the advice of law enforcement that we invoked the Emergencies Act.” However, law enforcement never asked for draconian measures.
Rex Murphy wrote in the National Post that, for the sake of his integrity, the minister should resign.
What is he waiting for—
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- Jun/14/22 3:01:51 p.m.
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Mr Speaker, the minister is desperate to blame someone else, but there is only one person who is under investigation and that is the Minister of Public Safety. The state of his credibility is grievous and irremediable. It is completely untenable to have a Minister of Public Safety who misleads the public about advice he is receiving from the police.
Respectfully, so that his important office can be filled by someone who the public can trust, will the minister please resign?
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- Jun/14/22 3:03:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there is only one person who is under investigation, and that is the Minister of Public Safety. The minister broke the law. The minister continues to mislead Canadians about why the government invoked the Emergencies Act. On May 2, he said, “At the recommendation of police, we invoked the Emergencies Act to protect Canadians”. We know now that it was never requested.
Will the minister acknowledge that he deceived Canadians about his actions and resign from his position?
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- Jun/14/22 3:06:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the minister continues to spread misinformation and cannot be trusted. Like me, the minister was a lawyer in his prior life. We both taught in a law school. I taught about the necessity of being honest. I trust he was honest with the courts.
Being honest with Parliament is even more important. He repeatedly told the House that law enforcement requested the Emergencies Act. They did not. This misled Canadians.
Will he resign?
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- Jun/14/22 3:10:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let me update the minister. His use of the Emergencies Act is subject to a judicial inquiry and a parliamentary committee. The minister is misleading Canadians. The minister has been misleading Parliament. He is undermining Canadians' confidence in democracy and in our justice system. He has had all of question period. He has had many months to finally come to the realization of what he has done. He has misled Canadians. He has misled Parliament. It is time to resign.
Will the minister resign?
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