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House Hansard - 132

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 22, 2022 10:00AM
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
Ms. Leah Gazan
  • Nov/22/22 12:23:07 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-20 
Mr. Speaker, that is another example of how indigenous people's rights in this country are consistently trampled on daily, including their mobility rights. Absolutely, we need to have independent oversight. That is certainly something we have called for. It also speaks to the need to have indigenous representation and indigenous oversight to look at matters of human rights, which the government agreed to uphold with the adoption of Bill C-15 in the last Parliament, to see the full adoption and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Context: House Hansard - 132 - Nov/22/22
Ms. Pam Damoff (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety, Lib.)
  • Nov/22/22 2:29:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member's comments that this is an issue that impacts all members of this House, not just the Liberal Party but all members of this House. That is why we established an independent panel, which confirmed that the 2019 election was free and fair. We have our eyes wide open. We passed laws to modernize the Elections Act and to close the gaps on foreign funding. The intelligence community and law enforcement investigate all allegations. We will always take action to protect Canadian democracy.
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