44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2022 10:00AM
- May/3/22 2:21:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for days during the illegal protest on Wellington Street, the Prime Minister stayed in hiding, refusing to intervene and deliberately sowing discord and division by condemning Canadians who did not think like him.
Then on February 14, realizing that his inaction might backfire, he brought out the big guns, the Emergencies Act, claiming that the police needed it to deal with the protests.
Protesters returned on the weekend. They left, without the Emergencies Act.
Can the Prime Minister tell us why?
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- May/3/22 2:21:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would first like to thank all the police forces and the RCMP for their good work. Last week, they carefully prepared a plan for the protest.
This protest played out very differently from the events in January and February, when we invoked the Emergencies Act on advice from the police. It was a necessary and responsible decision, and we are going to work with the commissioner and parliamentarians in the interest of transparency.
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- May/3/22 2:33:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he is avoiding the question again, but I will move on.
This past weekend, Ottawa saw the so-called “Rolling Thunder” protest come and go without major incident. During the "freedom convoy” protest, the government claimed that it needed the Emergencies Act because it needed to compel tow truck drivers to remove the protesters.
Over this last weekend, we saw many vehicles towed without needing the Emergencies Act, yet another blow to this government's fabricated claims.
If the government did not need extraordinary powers to get the tow trucks, what did it need them for?
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- May/3/22 2:35:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the minister claimed that Liberals invoked the Emergencies Act because they needed it, yet there was a large protest, related to the winter one that he just referred to, this past weekend, and as far as I am aware, no one remains camped out on the roadways around Parliament. This is in direct contradiction to what the minister is claiming. As this weekend showed, with leadership and coordination between government and police, peace and order can be maintained.
There was clearly a failure by the Liberals to show leadership during the winter protest, as the minister refers to it, and they used the Emergencies Act to bail themselves out.
Is that not right?
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- May/3/22 2:38:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there are many differences between last winter's protest and last weekend's, which was much smaller.
Last winter's blockade and occupation were illegal. We listened very respectfully to what the police forces told us. Then we very carefully made the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act. That decision was necessary. Now we will collaborate with all transparency efforts.
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- May/3/22 2:39:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is not an answer.
Again, the protest this past weekend was orderly. It was simply a matter of leadership. The Minister of Public Safety said, “first of all, we are relieved because of the good work of the police forces on the ground, including the RCMP, which added resources to assure everyone that public safety would be maintained.” That is what he is repeating today.
How can he still claim today that it was really necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act for the January events?
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