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House Hansard - 184

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 25, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Ms. Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West, Lib.)
  • Apr/25/23 2:02:27 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this week is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week in Canada. It is a moment to start critical conversations with our families and communities about the importance of organ donation. It is hard to capture how life-changing and life-saving organ donors can be. We know we need more Canadians to step up as donors and that means we must sometimes have difficult conversations with our loved ones about choosing to become a donor. In my home province of Nova Scotia, I was proud to be part of the government that changed the opt-in donation system to an opt-out model of presumed consent, which was a North American first. That change was made to increase organ donation and spur diverse communities to reflect upon their relationship with the subject. Today, let us use our platform and encourage all Canadians to become donors. Let us help save lives. Let us become organ donors today. To everyone who has already donated, they are our everyday heroes.
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Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Apr/25/23 2:25:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister asked Canadians to believe that he did not know that the guys who paid for his vacation were donors to the Trudeau Foundation. He asked Canadians to believe that he did not know that Beijing had given $140,000 to the Trudeau Foundation to influence him, even though the donation was processed and signed off on by his own brother. However, nothing tops this: He now expects Canadians to believe that he did not know that the Trudeau Foundation was holding meetings in his office. Does he even know what goes on in his office?
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Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Apr/25/23 2:26:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we all know that nobody focuses more on the Prime Minister than he focuses on himself. Meanwhile, he expects us to believe that that this foundation, named after his family, has donors who paid for his vacations, $80,000 in free vacation benefits; that it takes donations from Beijing, facilitated by his brother, that intelligence officers say were designed to influence him; and now, that he hosts the same foundation with his top officials in his own office. How dumb does he think Canadians are to believe that?
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