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House Hansard - 214

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 15, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 214 - Jun/15/23
Mr. Larry Brock
  • Jun/15/23 10:43:40 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I remark upon the minister's commentary. That he had this information available to him for three months and chose not to share those details, not only with the House but with Canadians and, more importantly, with the families of the victims, is completely inexcusable. The government—
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Context: House Hansard - 214 - Jun/15/23
Hon. Judy A. Sgro
  • Jun/15/23 12:24:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on the amendment, we all have a responsibility as we move forward to try to ensure that proper changes are made and things are done in the most effective way. I believe all of us parliamentarians, and in particular ministers, have a huge responsibility to ensure that we are moving forward on and responding to issues of the day. The amendment put forward today was another opportunity to politicize a horrible issue, something that all of us are very concerned about. I am not even going to reference the individual we are talking about nor the families, because I think we are revictimizing families over and over again. Every time this is mentioned in the House, like yesterday and the day before, it is revictimizing the families, and that is not acceptable.
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Context: House Hansard - 214 - Jun/15/23
Mr. Marcus Powlowski
  • Jun/15/23 7:26:45 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I agree with the member opposite, and I wrestle with this every week when it is a choice of whether I should stay at home with my family and my kids and participate virtually or come to Ottawa. I decide to come to Ottawa because I think I can do a better job here. On the other hand, we have to balance that desirability of having close proximity to and being able to talk to people with the fact that not allowing it is a real, significant impediment to people with kids, especially women, being able to partake in the democratic process. Without that, we have a Parliament with a bunch of older males or older women or people who do not have families, but we are missing a certain demographic of our population who are not here to vote and make decisions because they do not want to come to Parliament because they cannot both have a family and be in Parliament. With the hybrid system, they can.
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