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House Hansard - 149

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 30, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Mr. Charlie Angus
  • Jan/30/23 3:31:37 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. It is not up to me to tell the Speaker about the rules of House, which you have such great respect for, but I have heard one editorializing comment after another, and that is not what petitions are for. Members are supposed to simply stick to the petition. Throwing in all of these extra attacks on people who believe in women's reproductive rights is not fair game.
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Mr. Charlie Angus
  • Jan/30/23 3:35:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I missed the part before Question No. 1100. Could the parliamentary secretary just repeat the first section? I have been trying to—
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 3:54:16 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I have been here many years. We have gone through many debates on this, and I thank my colleague for her leadership on this. I remember Conservatives standing in the House and saying that this was some kind of a city issue. I represent people in rural country where a husband may have to be on the road, travelling, trucking, working the drills, and the mother is working. The idea that this is somehow some kind of rural-urban divide is a falsehood. The impact on rural women who have to work, who have to raise their families, often without support, is a serious issue. I want to ask my colleague her sense of what we need to do to make sure that this plan represents women across the country, and that they are not being marginalized because they are from rural areas or urban areas, the way that the Conservatives like to do to try to divide people.
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