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House Hansard - 215

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 16, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 215 - Jun/16/23
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Jun/16/23 11:53:22 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, it was this government that introduced into Bill C-83 section 28, which states that all offenders must be placed in the least restrictive environment for them. That is why, yesterday, the member for Niagara Falls asked the House to adopt a unanimous motion to repeal this portion of the section and ensure that offenders such as serial rapists are placed in an environment that contains the necessary restrictions. That is simple. We could have taken action. Yesterday, the Liberals refused. Why?
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Context: House Hansard - 215 - Jun/16/23
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Jun/16/23 11:54:43 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is so independent that when the Liberals got caught, they requested a process to review the decision by CSC. If it is so independent, then why did they request a review of the process? They found out about it three months ago. The Prime Minister's Office, his staff, the office of the Minister of Public Safety found out three months ago that Paul Bernardo, that serial rapist, would be transferred to a medium-security institution. That is unacceptable. The victims had the right to know. Why did they refuse to do the right thing and ensure that Mr. Bernardo was returned—
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Context: House Hansard - 215 - Jun/16/23
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Jun/16/23 12:30:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, Parliament is about to rise for the summer, but once again, the government is showing us that, despite its coalition with the NDP, it cannot manage the House agenda without having to ram through legislation by using time allocation motions. This is unfortunate, because the government is responsible for the agenda and the business of the House. If only it had managed things differently, we could have gotten through the bills that it wanted to see passed before the summer without having to adopt all these time allocation motions. As we saw this week, the worst part is that the government even moved a time allocation motion to change the Standing Orders, which is completely unacceptable and breaks with every tradition, since major changes are normally made by consensus. Will the Liberals admit that they are simply incapable of managing the House and that they could not care less what the opposition parties think?
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Context: House Hansard - 215 - Jun/16/23
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Jun/16/23 2:35:06 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, when employees from a minister's office or any department devise strategies to avoid answering legitimate questions from members of the House of Commons, it is, for us, a prima facie question of privilege. I therefore wanted to advise you that the member for Calgary Nose Hill wishes to reserve the right to respond to the comments made by the deputy government whip.
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