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House Hansard - 264

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 264 - Dec/7/23
Hon. Seamus O'Regan (Minister of Labour and Seniors, Lib.)
  • Dec/7/23 2:55:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there have been accusations that she and other members have made in the past couple of days that people in the other place were given marching orders by the Prime Minister on how to vote on that piece of legislation. Of course that is not true. The real question here, and what so many Canadians are wondering, is on the issue of a Ukraine free trade agreement and who told them how to vote. That is what Canadians are wondering. Who told them or did they each arrive at this independently? What a shameful exercise to vote against a beacon of democracy in this world.
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Context: House Hansard - 264 - Dec/7/23
Hon. Seamus O'Regan (Minister of Labour and Seniors, Lib.)
  • Dec/7/23 3:12:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we brought together labour leaders from all across the country at our new union-led advisory table, which will advise the government on some major macroeconomic issues that have real kitchen-table consequences on a lot of workers in this country, namely the energy transition, climate change and the housing crisis. We will do that at this table in the same way we will with Bill C-50, an 11-page bill that the opposition has found 20,000 reasons to oppose to prevent workers from having a say at the table. What are they so afraid of? Why are they so afraid of workers?
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