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House Hansard - 137

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 29, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 137 - Nov/29/22
Mr. Gary Vidal (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, CPC)
  • Nov/29/22 11:17:02 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-29 
Madam Speaker, I listened to the member intently as he literally read calls to action 53 to 56. My question for the member would simply be as follows. He did refer to the legislation with amendments, so that is fair, but my challenge would be as follows. If we look at the calls to action 53, 55 and 56, the spirit and intent of those calls to action were not met in the original draft of this legislation. Without Conservative amendments proposed at committee, the spirit of those calls to action would have been failed. I will give an example. Call to action 53 was supposed to be an independent body, and if we read the draft legislation, independence was not met in the sense of governance. The minister had total control over how the board was structured and how the organization was set up. He had total control over the information that was going to be set up in a protocol. Finally, call to action 55 was about measurables. There were no measurables in this bill until we proposed an amendment. The member referred to call to action 56, where the Prime Minister was to respond, and in the legislation it was the minister—
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Context: House Hansard - 137 - Nov/29/22
Mr. Gary Vidal (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, CPC)
  • Nov/29/22 12:49:47 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-29 
Madam Speaker, I want to talk about the timeline in getting the bill to the House. This process was initiated in December 2017. There was a bunch of work done by an interim board of directors that lasted from January to June 2018. When they completed their work, they issued a report with a number of recommendations. They actually included a draft bill in that report in June 2018. Nothing happened until December 2021, when the minister appointed the new transitional committee. We agree this is a very important issue, but why did it take three and a half years to take that next step in the process?
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