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House Hansard - 176

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 30, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 10:41:46 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-11 
Madam Speaker, there is no doubt that the bill is a disaster. Liberals have been flailing away with it for months. They tried it in the last Parliament. They steadfastly refuse to exempt user-uploaded content. It has been to the Senate; indeed, as the minister said in his remarks, the Senate spent a record amount of time debating this bill because it is a disaster. The bill needed the 20-odd amendments that were sent back, which still do not even fix it, and the government is ramming it back and just accepting a few of the amendments. Can the member not grasp, or does he not agree, that a bill that required this much extra work to fix it within the Senate should at least, at a minimum, continue to be debated here and referred to a committee in the House of Commons? Then we could maybe have a chance to cobble this together into something that is not the disaster it is.
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 12:16:24 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same point of order. By all means, I am sure you have a responsibility to look into the issue that was raised. I am not sure what happened, but nobody really appreciates a tattler or the extent to which the member piled it on there. I think we can be more reasonable about these issues.
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 4:30:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to that response, he did not answer the previous question. Why did they not include the amendment? It would have made it all clear, and there would have been much less for people to object to in this bill had they accepted that amendment.
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Pat Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge, CPC)
Mr. Speaker, we know this bill has been an absolute disaster in how it was managed through the House. It was introduced in the previous Parliament, and the Liberals called an election, so they were the ones who killed Bill C-10. It was brought back as Bill C-11. It did not include the critical exemption that critics from the Green Party, as well as other critics out there and Conservatives, pointed out was a real problem. It was just a dog's breakfast of amendments having to come back. Now the Liberals have come in with closure today to stifle debate rather than further study the amendments, something the Government of Quebec would also want. Why are the Liberals rushing this through and insisting that the opposition are delaying the bill, when there are so many known problems with the bill and when it so clearly needs more work?
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