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Context: House Hansard - 132 - Nov/22/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Nov/22/22 10:37:44 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-20

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. She is always very competent, and the comments and proposals she makes in the House are always very clear. As my colleague in the Conservative Party said earlier, there have already been two iterations of this bill. There is something that I have noticed since I was elected to the House two or three years ago. On one side, the Liberals spend their time imposing gag orders and, on the other, the Conservatives filibuster to waste our time. All this means that important bills like this one are never adopted. All of the work that we did on the two previous iterations of the bill was for nothing. We keep repeating the same things over and over. Does my colleague agree that we could work more efficiently for Canadians in the House of Commons?

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Context: House Hansard - 132 - Nov/22/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Nov/22/22 11:03:59 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-20

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his very informative speech. He clearly knows a lot about this issue. I would like to take him in another direction and ask him a question about the importance of having an independent complaints management committee in various areas. I think that is really important. Here in the House, we worked on setting up a similar committee to deal with sexual harassment complaints in the army, but it never went anywhere. Even though Justice Deschamps issued a report in 2015, such a committee has not been set up while the Liberals have been in office. However, the government took action right away on the complaints by female Swimming Canada team members. An independent committee to handle complaints was set up. That is really important, and we see that in this bill. I would like my colleague to talk a bit more about the importance of having an independent committee, outside the community in question, to handle complaints in certain cases.

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Context: House Hansard - 132 - Nov/22/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Nov/22/22 11:31:47 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-20

Madam Speaker, it is always fascinating to hear my colleague boast about the government's actions. He said earlier that they gave time to the House, that they voted to extend sitting hours until midnight with the NDP's agreement, that they are so democratic, and that they have so much to say. I forget how many gag orders they have forced on the House since I have been here. In fact, we spend half our time in the House debating adjournment motions in order not to debate. It is outrageous. Two weeks ago, they cut off debate on Bill C‑31, a very important bill for housing. In committee, they cut off debate on Bill C‑13 on reforming the Official Languages Act and they no longer want witnesses to be heard. The act has not been reformed in 50 years. There is a major language crisis in Canada and the Liberals do not want to debate it. I cannot believe that they think this is a great democracy that spends its time debating the big issues.

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