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House Hansard - 112

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 18, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Oct/18/22 2:26:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we finally learned that the lucrative Roxham Road contracts awarded to a Liberal donor were worth $28 million. I say “finally” because we have been asking about this for a year. The government has been dodging questions and denying access to information requests for a year. Under pressure, the government finally disclosed how much the contracts known to the media were worth, but it did not disclose the contracts themselves. We know that there are other contracts, namely for hotels. If the government has nothing to hide, why is it refusing to disclose all of the Roxham Road contracts?
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Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Oct/18/22 2:27:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the government is withholding information about the Roxham Road contracts on the grounds of “national security”. What nonsense. In order to offer untendered contracts under the pretext of national security, the law states that there must be a disaster or a threat to life. Roxham Road is neither of those. Yesterday, the fine Liberal donor who got $28 million in contracts disclosed in committee that it was the government itself that insisted that these clauses in the contracts remain confidential. That is very suspicious. Is the Liberal donor who got the $28 million just the tip of the iceberg?
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Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Oct/18/22 3:45:30 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-31 
This is another slap in the face of parliamentarism, Mr. Speaker. It is a two-handed slap, one hand being Liberal and the other New Democrat. Again, it seems as though we are in a bad movie. Bill C‑31 is ill-conceived. We should have worked on this bill because it was scribbled on the back of a napkin. Then, we can see there is a desire to expedite debate. There is talk of dental insurance, but there is no clear indication in the bill that it was dental insurance, quite the contrary. What we are seeing now is a government that drafted bad legislation because it was in a too big a hurry to consummate its marriage to the NDP to really put any work into it. My question is simple. Is the minister embarrassed to introduce this closure motion?
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