SoVote

Decentralized Democracy

House Hansard - 183

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 24, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23
Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)
  • Apr/24/23 6:50:50 p.m.
  • Watch
Madam Speaker, as always, it is a true honour to rise in this place and bring to the attention of this House some incredibly important issues that Canadians have signed petitions about. Today, I have three petitions that I am pleased to table on behalf of many Canadians. In the first petition, citizens draw attention to the House of Commons the following and ask the government to take these following actions: one, immediately call for an end to violence and for restraint from all sides and parties involved in the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia; two, immediately call—
98 words
All Topics
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23
Mr. Damien Kurek
  • Apr/24/23 6:51:37 p.m.
  • Watch
Madam Speaker, although I cannot show you, I think I am doing an admirable job of summarizing what is in a very lengthy petition. I thank you for that reminder and can assure you I am doing so as briefly as I can. The petitioners also call for humanitarian access to the region and for independent monitoring to be allowed, and for international investigations into the credible reports of war crimes and gross violations of human rights law. They call for engaging directly and consistently with the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments on this conflict; and for promoting short-, medium- and long-term elections monitoring in Ethiopia.
106 words
All Topics
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border