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House Hansard - 73

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 17, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Yves Perron
  • May/17/22 12:11:38 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague was focused on his speech. People were shouting at him while he was speaking, which is why he simply responded without thinking—
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP)
  • May/17/22 12:32:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to the speech by my colleague from Mirabel. It contrasts with what the Conservatives said earlier about the same motion. They denied that climate change is real. We lived it in British Columbia last year. We experienced the flooding. We experienced the heat—
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)
  • May/17/22 12:36:08 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from the Bloc for his speech. I would like to know whether he is aware of the amendment to the motion I introduced earlier. The NDP refused to consider the amendment, which would allow us to improve the motion and review how subsidies are granted in Canada, to one industry rather than another, for example. Will he support the amendment?
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Alexandra Mendès)
  • May/17/22 2:00:04 p.m.
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The hon. member will have four minutes after question period to resume his speech.
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Context: House Hansard - 73 - May/17/22
Hon. Dominic LeBlanc
  • May/17/22 6:49:08 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-14 
Madam Speaker, far from wanting to silence the official opposition, we are actually trying to help the members have an opportunity to vote on this legislation. We are trying to help them out of the dead end they found themselves in last evening, as our friend for New Westminster—Burnaby pointed out, where they were using a series of absolutely ridiculous measures to ensure that the House was voting on which Conservative member would repeat a speech that was generated the previous time this legislation was brought before the House. Our Conservative colleague asked what is behind this. I will be very clear on what is behind this. This is about allowing the House of Commons to pronounce itself on Bill C-14, which we think will enjoy broad support in the House, and then allowing the bill to proceed to committee, where our colleagues in committee can hear from witnesses, can debate the legislation and can make amendments if they decide it is necessary. The bill can come back to the House of Commons in the normal legislative process with which we are extremely familiar. Then, finally, our friends in the other place will have an opportunity to study the legislation as well. The urgency, as I said, is constitutional and under legislation. Every 10 years, after a census, there is a redistribution process that takes place in every province, allowing an independent commission chaired by a justice or a judge from that province, appointed by the chief justice of the province, to look at the question of electoral boundaries and to adjust electoral boundaries for movements in population and for increases in population in some provinces. In this case, if this bill is adopted, we will provide a floor for the number of seats every province will have in this House of Commons. It is particularly important to our friends from the province of Quebec who, under the formula, would have stood to be diminished by one seat, losing one seat in the House of Commons. We think it is important for Canadians and for Quebeckers to know that the representation in 2021 will be the representation used by these commissions in determining the appropriate electoral boundaries. In your great province of Quebec, Madam Speaker, that would be 78 seats. We wish the Conservative Party would support us in passing this so the commission could do its important work.
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