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House Hansard - 176

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 30, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Mel Arnold
  • Mar/30/23 7:10:31 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I expected that the Liberals might wonder what I am getting to. What I am getting to is the fact that they cannot be trusted, so why should we trust them on this bill? As I was mentioning, the list of egregious actions by the government just continues to grow. I spoke about the ethics breaches, how that was dragged out—
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Context: House Hansard - 176 - Mar/30/23
Mr. Bob Zimmer (Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, CPC)
  • Mar/30/23 7:40:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a quick question. This is from the Senate testimony: Ian Scott, who was, at the time, head of the CRTC, testified before our committee about their concerns that subclause 7(7) of the bill could give new and unprecedented powers to cabinet to intervene in independent CRTC decisions.... In this sense, Bill C-11 reduces enormously — potentially — the powers that the CRTC has and hands them over to the Government of Canada. I have a simple question for my colleague. Can the Prime Minister be trusted with our freedoms?
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