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House Hansard - 112

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 18, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22
Mr. Marc Dalton
  • Oct/18/22 12:27:58 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, we are concerned and want the government to actually take action when people are dying and there are millions of refugees. We need to continue to bring things forward. I have an example. About two or three months ago, there was an opportunity to have free flights come here. They would have brought in refugees and sent back humanitarian aid. It was constantly being stymied by the Liberals. I asked what was going on here to try to maybe shame them, and the next day it was changed. I appreciate the change. Sometimes we have to bring things forward to see change. That is the reason. This is an emergency.
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Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22
Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)
  • Oct/18/22 12:55:29 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, last spring, as a member of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights, I had the opportunity to speak with Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. I asked him whether he thinks there is an imbalance in how the west is dealing with the conflict in Ukraine relative to other equally serious conflicts in the world. I am thinking of Tigray, the Uighurs, the situation in Iran and the current crisis in Haiti. Does my colleague think that the motion moved this morning by the Conservative Party reflects this overexposure of a major crisis? We fully agree that this crisis is significant. However, the west has demonstrated a distinct lack of concern when it comes to dealing with major crises, particularly those in Africa. What does my colleague think?
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Context: House Hansard - 112 - Oct/18/22
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, NDP)
  • Oct/18/22 3:10:32 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, obviously there is no plan at all. We learned that the Liberals spent $28 million to lease land near Roxham Road and they did so secretly. Instead of suspending the safe third country agreement to streamline the process for refugees, the Liberals chose to funnel millions of dollars of public money to a Liberal donor without a call for tenders. For a Liberal, a crony is always a crony. When will the Liberals suspend the safe third country agreement as the NDP has been calling for?
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