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House Hansard - 59

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 27, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 59 - Apr/27/22
Mr. Glen Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, CPC)
  • Apr/27/22 3:06:55 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, I think the Prime Minister's definition of transparency is different from Canadians' definition. The Emergencies Act stipulates that the special joint committee and the inquiry are responsible for holding the actions of the government to account, and not that of Canadian citizens. At last night’s committee meeting, the Minister of Public Safety and the Minister of Justice continued to hide behind cabinet confidences and lawyer-client privilege. Will the Prime Minister be transparent and accountable to Canadians and release the documents the government relied upon to justify the invocation of the Emergencies Act?
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Context: House Hansard - 59 - Apr/27/22
Mr. Jagmeet Singh
  • Apr/27/22 4:19:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the member's passion has certainly secured him a future job in the oil and gas sector. However, the problem is, why would we give billions of dollars of additional subsidies to profitable companies? Why would we spend our public money? Would the member go to the public and say that we are going to spend the public money on a company that is profitable to make them do something? Why would we agree to that? That is ludicrous. An hon. member: Oh, oh! Mr. Jagmeet Singh: Mr. Speaker, the member had his time to ask a question. Maybe the member wants to ask another question, but I will respond by saying that it is ludicrous to give public money to profitable companies when we should focus our public money on investing in workers, in the help workers impacted by the climate crisis will need and in renewable energy. That is where our public money should go. We would not want to give our public money to profitable enterprises. That is wrong.
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