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House Hansard - 98

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 20, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 98 - Sep/20/22
Ms. Louise Chabot
  • Sep/20/22 12:20:22 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-22 
Mr. Speaker, of course we took the time to review it. I wonder whether my colleague took the time to listen carefully to my speech. We know that this targets people of working age, but the point we are trying to make when we talk about who is eligible is that the concepts of disability and impairment do not have the same linguistic and cultural scope. That is an important point. I would like to remind my colleague that, according to the September 23, 2020, throne speech, the disability inclusion plan includes a new inclusive process for determining eligibility for benefits that reflects a modern understanding of disability. We have questions about that, and I think I was very clear.
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Context: House Hansard - 98 - Sep/20/22
Ms. Bonita Zarrillo
  • Sep/20/22 12:52:52 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-22 
Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, I am very optimistic and very hopeful that all members of the House will be able to sit together and pass this bill quickly.
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Context: House Hansard - 98 - Sep/20/22
Ms. Andréanne Larouche (Shefford, BQ)
  • Sep/20/22 3:23:45 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-22 
Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Winnipeg-North for his speech. I am going to need some clarification. I was speaking just this morning with Marie‑Christine Hon of the Dynamique des handicapés de Granby et région. She has been working with people with disabilities for a long time. She knows her stuff. She explained to me that she has looked at the bill. As much as she has read it over and over again, some questions still remain in her mind. Far too many things are left undefined in the bill. As my colleague from Thérèse-De Blainville so aptly said this morning, the devil is in the details, and they are not there in the bill. I would therefore appreciate it if my colleague could enlighten me on that.
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Context: House Hansard - 98 - Sep/20/22
Mr. Luc Desilets (Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, BQ)
  • Sep/20/22 3:53:28 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-22 
Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Calgary for his speech. To be clear and to the point, the framework is lacking, as my friend said earlier. There is not much of a framework, and we are having a hard time seeing what the end result of all this will be, even though we support in principle what we see on paper. My question is this: How does my colleague explain the fact that consultations will follow? We are talking about three years of consultations. Does he think that is a reasonable time frame?
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Context: House Hansard - 98 - Sep/20/22
Mr. Martin Champoux (Drummond, BQ)
  • Sep/20/22 4:19:03 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-22 
Madam Speaker, I commend my colleague from Kitchener—Conestoga on his speech and also for the week he spent in Quebec City this summer perfecting his French. I hope to hear him give his response partly in the language of Molière. Since the beginning of the debate on Bill C‑22, I have been hearing a lot about how this is a framework that we need to build on. There is indeed a lot missing from this bill. We keep hearing about good intentions, and obviously we agree in principle that we must do more to include persons with disabilities. We must improve their living conditions. Everyone agrees on that. No one can be against apple pie, as they say back home. What I am seeing, however, is that not only are members getting used to doing the government's work at our riding offices, but it has now gotten to the point where we have to do the government's work in committee too. Bill C‑22, as introduced, is clearly incomplete and inadequate. We must work on it to improve it, which is what the Bloc Québécois intends to do. My question for the member for Kitchener—Conestoga is this: Why introduce a bill with so little content, on a subject that is so incredibly important?
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Context: House Hansard - 98 - Sep/20/22
Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Dufferin—Caledon for his speech. I also thank him for his hard work on this bill. He has been working on it for a long time, and he can be proud of what he has accomplished. Let me play devil's advocate so he can say a few more words. Some people are watching this debate because they plan to criticize Bill C‑242. They wonder why we should bother proceeding with the bill if there are ministerial instructions that are essentially the same as what is in Bill C‑242. Would my colleague please comment on that?
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