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House Hansard - 77

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 30, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Taylor Bachrach (Skeena—Bulkley Valley, NDP)
  • May/30/22 12:13:19 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-18 
Madam Speaker, we find ourselves in this place once again discussing time allocation on an important bill. I think for most Canadians, they look at this and say, “We want to see adequate debate on these topics”, yet, at times in this Parliament, when adequate time has been afforded, we see other parties using that time to perform obstructionist tactics and waste the time of this place. Can the minister please comment on the bind we seem to find ourselves in where we have to choose between time allocation and putting up with obstructionist delays?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • May/30/22 12:23:31 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-18 
Madam Speaker, when the Conservatives were in government, a majority government at that, they used time allocation over 100 times. Here we are now, and we are seeing the Conservatives using obstructionist tactics over and over again. Could the member share why this bill is important? Could he also share why it is important that we make a decision that Canadians need to be made and why these obstructionist tactics are in the way of Canadians being served?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)
  • May/30/22 12:33:47 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-18 
Madam Speaker, when I was in opposition in the third party, I indicated that there is a time when governments need to use time allocation as a tool to pass legislation. We have before us today, and have witnessed for a number of months now, an official opposition that has absolutely no intention to allow legislation to pass. It does not take very much for an opposition party to prevent legislation from passing. As I said when I was in opposition, at times the government has to use time allocation as a tool. Would my colleague not agree that, given the strategy of the Conservative Party not to pass legislation and to even filibuster legislation that it supports, the only way we can pass this legislation is if we use time allocation, something the Conservative Party used to vote for extensively?
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/30/22
Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/30/22 10:35:38 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, that would not have been the reason to stop fishing the shrimp. We were setting an allocation that would protect the shrimp.
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Context: House Hansard - 77 - May/31/22
Hon. Joyce Murray
  • May/31/22 12:07:58 a.m.
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Mr. Chair, that is our process, consulting with anyone affected so we can understand all of the perspectives when there is an allocation being done.
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