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House Hansard - 197

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 15, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 197 - May/15/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • May/15/23 2:27:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister keeps sinking further and further into the quagmire of Chinese interference. What concrete action has he taken? Did he launch the independent public commission of inquiry that everyone is calling for? No, he did not. Did he implement the Bloc Québécois's proposals, including a permanent investigative body? He did not do that either. What did he do? He announced byelections. Every day for months now, we have been talking about China interfering in our elections. Instead of taking concrete action to combat interference, he calls byelections. Is that a joke?
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Context: House Hansard - 197 - May/15/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • May/15/23 2:29:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, by choosing to call a byelection now when it very well could have been held in the fall, the Prime Minister is showing that the priority, for him, is not countering Chinese interference in our democracy, investigating the recent election, protecting the upcoming election or ensuring public confidence in our democracy. For him, the priority is measuring the political fallout from his much-publicized inaction on the issue of Chinese interference. Why is the Prime Minister once again unable to place the interests of democracy above those of the Liberal Party?
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