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Member of Parliament

Charlie Angus

  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • Timmins—James Bay
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 60%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $134,227.44

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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Mr. Charlie Angus
  • Feb/15/24 12:54:58 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I asked a question. I think I should be allowed to have an answer, even if I mentioned unelected and unaccountable senators. I should not be denied an answer from my colleague.
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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Mr. Charlie Angus
  • Feb/15/24 12:51:16 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I am very concerned that you are rewriting rules in Parliament. Is the issue that I used the word “unelected”? Is that not parliamentary? Is “unaccountable” not parliamentary? It has been used in the House.
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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Feb/15/24 12:49:17 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I want to follow up on something my colleague pointed out that people in Canada really need to understand. Because the federal government failed to challenge the Truchon decision, the legislation came back to the House. Parliament went through it, and it was to be approved in the Senate, yet unaccountable, unelected people in the Senate who did no due diligence decided arbitrarily that they would expand MAID to include people who were desperate, isolated and alone with mental illness. They threw it back to the House without any work being done, and the Liberals accepted it. Now we are scrambling, 30 days away from the deadline. I would ask my hon. colleague what it says about the fundamental failings of democracy that unelected, unaccountable people in the Senate, who cannot even be fired, could make such a profound change in legislation that would affect so many lives without any oversight, due to a failure of the government to say they are way over the line, this is not their purview and this is the work that Parliament does.
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Context: House Hansard - 283 - Feb/15/24
Mr. Charlie Angus
  • Feb/15/24 12:21:35 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the problem was that the government accepted the decision and changed the law. Now we are dealing with it. My message to government is that, from here on in, we cannot be cavalier about this. We cannot just allow unelected bodies, or even a superior court, to make a decision on something so profound. Our duty as parliamentarians is to test the law, check the law and make sure that any changes from here on in are done within a broader framework of rights, dignity and the protection of the vulnerable.
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Context: House Hansard - 257 - Nov/28/23
Mr. Charlie Angus
  • Nov/28/23 12:26:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that, and in that I do not actually deal with the unelected Senate on a regular basis, is it “crony” or “pal”? Is there a particular term that I should be aware of?
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