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House Hansard - 308

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Hon. Steven MacKinnon (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)
  • May/3/24 11:35:20 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked many times and answered many times by my hon. colleague, the minister. I want to know something. The member is a female member of her caucus. This morning, a headline reads, “Conservatives don’t rule out using notwithstanding clause beyond criminal justice matters”. Fifty years ago, Roe v. Wade was enacted in the U.S., and women have lived under that protection in the U.S. for 50 years. For 42 years— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Hon. Steven MacKinnon
  • May/3/24 11:36:07 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for 50 years, women in the U.S. have lived under the protection of Roe v. Wade. For 42 years, women in Canada have lived under the protection of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Conservatives will now not rule out using the notwithstanding clause beyond criminal justice matters. Will the member stand in her place to tell us what rights she intends to take away from women?
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Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Hon. Steven MacKinnon (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)
  • May/3/24 11:39:07 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked and answered. B.C. has been making adjustments to its pilot project. Of course, we are supporting that. I had no luck with the last member. Let me ask this member if Conservatives will not rule out using the notwithstanding clause— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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Hon. Seamus O'Regan (Minister of Labour and Seniors, Lib.)
  • May/3/24 11:42:57 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there are right ways to go about things, and then there are explosive, dramatic and catastrophic ways to go about things. In talking about using the notwithstanding clause, the Leader of the Opposition's response was, “All of my proposals are constitutional, and we will make them constitutional using whatever tools the Constitution allows me to use to make them constitutional. I think you know exactly what I mean”, he says. “They will happen, and they will stay in place.” For anybody like me, who has a right that was afforded to him because of this charter in my lifetime, these are chilling words that they—
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Mr. Michael Barrett (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, CPC)
  • May/3/24 11:56:25 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are trying to distract and divide. A common-sense Conservative government would use the notwithstanding clause only on matters of criminal justice. It is unconscionable that the government would allow a mass murderer like the Quebec mosque shooter to ever be released from prison. He murdered six innocent worshippers, and the only way he should have left maximum security was in a box. Our question was about the corruption of the Liberal government and the employment minister's pocketing cash on the backs of taxpayers. Will the Liberals do the right thing and call in the RCMP?
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Context: House Hansard - 308 - May/3/24
Hon. Steven MacKinnon (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)
  • May/3/24 11:57:06 a.m.
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It is very nice, Mr. Speaker, to have some clarity on that. I would remind the member that at one time in this country, reproductive rights were a criminal matter. Could the member lay out, in very specific detail for the House, now that he is talking about the notwithstanding clause, whether he would make reproductive rights for women in this country a criminal matter once again, yes or no?
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