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House Hansard - 166

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 8, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 166 - Mar/8/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Mar/8/23 2:45:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I find my hon. colleague's comments to be rather disturbing, suggesting that experts may not be as well suited to protect our democracy as the opposition parties. We are not claiming that one party is better suited than the others for protecting the integrity of our institutions and our elections. That is precisely why Canadians want us to rely on non-partisan experts to make recommendations and to ensure that everything is being done to ensure that they can have confidence in our processes.
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Context: House Hansard - 166 - Mar/8/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Mar/8/23 3:10:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, those of us on this side of the House have confidence in the experts. I think we have all heard some experts say we need an independent public commission, while others say a public commission would not be able to do all the fact-checking it would take to give Canadians confidence in our institutions. That is why we chose to ask an independent, impartial expert to determine the best way to ensure that Canadians can have confidence in what was done.
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Context: House Hansard - 166 - Mar/8/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Mar/8/23 3:18:21 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the excessive partisanship we are seeing on this issue that is extremely serious and extremely important to Canadians is exactly why we have chosen to appoint an independent expert to make the determination on how we can best reassure Canadians and ensure that our government and our institutions are doing everything to protect our democracy. That is exactly what we are doing. We have seen experts say that a public inquiry is necessary. We have seen other experts say that it would not get to the truth. That is why an independent expert will make that determination.
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Context: House Hansard - 166 - Mar/8/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Mar/8/23 3:19:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are clearly seeing, once again, that the Leader of the Opposition is simply not serious in his approach to reassuring Canadians about institutions, about our democracy, about the integrity of our elections. That is why we are proposing significant and serious steps and mechanisms to make sure that, independently and with expert advice, the right answers are being sought and the right answers are being shared with Canadians. Those are not our answers. Those are not their answers. Those are answers determined by independent panels of experts tasked with protecting our democracy.
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Context: House Hansard - 166 - Mar/8/23
Mr. Todd Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George, CPC)
  • Mar/8/23 5:39:07 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, the hon. colleague has said that the Conservatives are taking the side of tech giants. However, there are legal experts, as well as other experts in the field, including former CRTC commissioners, who have serious concerns with Bill C-11. Who is really misleading Canadians? Is it that member of Parliament, those legal experts or the former CRTC commissioners?
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