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House Hansard - 34

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 19, 2022 07:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 34 - Feb/19/22
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)
  • Feb/19/22 11:08:28 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague said that we need the Emergencies Act to secure the joint participation of police forces. That is completely false. That sort of thing is commonly done under ordinary laws. The same is true for criminal financial activity, which can be dealt with under existing laws. In fact, when we look at everything that is invoked in the orders, there is not a single measure that is not already enshrined in existing acts and regulations. Why bring out the atomic bomb of the Emergencies Act when everything that is invoked in the orders is already written into ordinary laws? It makes no sense.
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Context: House Hansard - 34 - Feb/19/22
Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie
  • Feb/19/22 11:32:13 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech. I completely agree with him. Everyone is saying that something needs to be done. This situation is a problem, but nothing justifies the nuclear option. The government was obliged to prove that there was no other option before it invoked the act. The government did not even try to prove this in the official documents it sent us, nor did it review the existing legislation. We did that, and we did not find any measures that were lacking in the existing legislation and that would justify the use of this act, other than the potential need to requisition tow trucks. The Liberal Party is making a questionable connection between the situation that needs to be resolved and the legislative atomic bomb it is dropping.
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