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House Hansard - 63

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • 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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Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • May/3/22 2:21:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, to justify invoking the Emergencies Act, the Liberal government cited security threats. It stated, “the threats of violence and presence of firearms at protests...constitute a public order emergency”. These are serious allegations that created a lot of public concern. Knowing that, why did the Prime Minister allow members, senators and House of Commons staff to continue to circulate among the protesters at the protest in January and February?
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Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Mr. Dane Lloyd (Sturgeon River—Parkland, CPC)
  • 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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