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House Hansard - 146

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 12, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 146 - Dec/12/22
Hon. Marco Mendicino
  • Dec/12/22 12:32:08 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-8 
Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Kingston and the Islands for his hard work every day in this chamber and for being an advocate for human rights. It is indeed the need to stand up for human rights that makes this particular bill so urgent. The individuals who are responsible for transgressions of human rights and who brutalize, torture and kill innocent women and other vulnerable individuals in Iran need to be held to account. Canada has been consistently and strongly outspoken on the need to deliver sanctions and consequences so they can never set foot in Canada and, equally, so no one in this country can in any way try to support or facilitate those transgressions of human rights. What this bill proposes to do is strengthen our capacity to deliver those consequences by rendering people inadmissible. Through more clearly articulated and expressed language under the IRPA, we have the ability to make good on that. The sooner we can get the bill to committee and the sooner we can pass it into law, the better. I am somewhat encouraged, and perhaps it is the time of year, by the anxiousness that I hear from our Conservative colleagues over moving forward with it.
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Context: House Hansard - 146 - Dec/12/22
Mr. Philip Lawrence (Northumberland—Peterborough South, CPC)
  • Dec/12/22 12:57:38 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill S-8 
Mr. Speaker, part of this, of course, is to prevent human rights violators from entering our country, but in order for them to be stopped, they need to be named. The Magnitsky sanctions have not been well used. In fact, in the last five years, there have been zero folks named. Does he believe the government is dropping the ball when it comes to labelling human rights violators?
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