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House Hansard - 176

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 30, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Mar/30/23 2:28:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about Chinese interference. In the budget, the government is creating a new scheme, the national counter-foreign interference office. By doing so, the Prime Minister is confirming that all the committees, expert panels and robust measures he has been talking about for weeks do not work, and he knows it. He is proving that his government was duped by China in the last two elections, and he knows it. Does this not prove that we need an independent public commission of inquiry?
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Alain Therrien (La Prairie, BQ)
  • Mar/30/23 2:29:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about the independence of the special rapporteur. The Prime Minister does not need him in order to take action. The proof is that he did not wait for his recommendations to create his national office. He is dictating the findings of the rapporteur before the rapporteur even gets a chance to speak, and he is adding that to the budget. Hello independence. The special rapporteur and this new national office are constructs invented by the Prime Minister and under the control of the Prime Minister, because the Prime Minister wants to use them to his benefit and the Prime Minister wants to control the information. Those are the facts. Quebeckers are no fools. They want an independent public inquiry.
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 2:35:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for the Emergencies Act commission, the government named a Liberal staffer as the independent commissioner. For the foreign interference rapporteur, it named a member of the Trudeau Foundation and the Prime Minister's ski buddy. Now it needed someone to be an ethics commissioner, so it named a Liberal minister's sister-in-law to that position of independent Ethics Commissioner. This is the same minister who has already been found guilty of violating the law. When is the Liberal government going to run out of family and friends to name as independent officers?
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Jeremy Patzer (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 6:34:31 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I found it really fascinating that the Senate, which is filled with a lot of the Prime Minister's supposedly independent senators, was upset about the bill and was pushing back. I am wondering if the member has any thoughts about what the Senate was trying to do and how the senators were actually standing up for the rights and freedoms of Canadians.
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