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House Hansard - 34

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 19, 2022 07:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 34 - Feb/19/22
Mr. Luc Desilets (Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, BQ)
  • Feb/19/22 10:52:38 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am going to ask my colleague a question that I asked earlier and to which I did not get an answer. One of the main measures in this order involves freezing the bank accounts of Quebec and Canadian truckers, and we hear that they would be frozen for a week. Could the member give me more information on that? I imagine that some thought was given to this order. Is it for one week, yes or no?
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Context: House Hansard - 34 - Feb/19/22
Mr. Frank Caputo (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, CPC)
  • Feb/19/22 3:18:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is always a pleasure to rise on behalf of the people of Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo. My hon. colleague, the hon. parliamentary secretary, spoke about many lawyers in this House who have scrutinized this bill and have felt that the threshold is met. Well, I can tell him that after scrutinizing the bill, this lawyer does not feel that the threshold has been met. The member spoke about the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That was interesting, because part of the rule of law is that the law must be predictable and it must be transparent. In this case, when it comes to freezing assets, we do not have any predictability or any transparency about how that is going on, especially if it is delegated to a third party, such as banks. How can this hon. member say that the charter is being respected when the rule of law cannot be upheld through a third party?
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