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House Hansard - 60

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 28, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 60 - Apr/28/22
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
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Mr. Speaker, medical assistance in dying is an important issue to the Bloc Québécois and to Quebec. We have worked hard at parliamentary committee and saw that we would not have enough time to do all the work that such a sensitive topic demands. That is why the Bloc Québécois wanted to move the deadline for tabling the report to October 17. The other parties, some of which were not convinced, dragged their feet. The government decided to include this in a motion that muzzles the opposition, when it was unnecessary to do that since Standing Order 27 allows sitting hours to be extended. It has brought out the heavy artillery, complete with a gift to the Bloc Québécois that would extend the deadline for the report on medical assistance in dying to October 17. That is like the government asking us if we like honey and us saying yes, but then the government adds arsenic to the honey and tells us to eat up. Why did the government choose to muzzle the opposition when it could have simply used Standing Order 27?
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