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House Hansard - 140

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 2, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 140 - Dec/2/22
Ms. Jennifer O'Connell (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Dec/2/22 11:51:20 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the importance of our national security and protecting our democracies should be something every single Canadian takes seriously. While the Conservatives continue to play politics with our national security, serious governments like ours take national security seriously. All of the information that Conservatives want would be available. All we are asking is that it be treated in a way that protects our national security and ensures that our adversaries do not get access to the very information they would try to use to undermine our democracy.
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Context: House Hansard - 140 - Dec/2/22
Ms. Jennifer O'Connell (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Dec/2/22 11:52:23 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, as I said, the protection of our democracy is paramount, but with that, protecting our democracy also means respecting it. Yesterday, the member opposite, when I rose in this place, continually screamed for me to sit down, yet he did not have that same emotional outburst when the Minister of Public Safety was answering that question. I have some advice for the members opposite. If they support the protection of democracy—
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Context: House Hansard - 140 - Dec/2/22
Ms. Jennifer O'Connell
  • Dec/2/22 11:52:55 a.m.
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—they might want to start by respecting the women who have been democratically elected in this place.
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Context: House Hansard - 140 - Dec/2/22
Ms. Jennifer O'Connell (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Dec/2/22 12:15:40 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, nothing could be further from the truth. That is not what happened. The members opposite were screaming, as they are screaming at me now, when I simply raised the point that yesterday, when I stood in this place, the member for St. Albert—Edmonton was screaming for me to sit down, and they were trying to deny that it happened. There are lots of witnesses on this side, and the member has to account for her denial of a member on her side telling another woman to sit down.
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