Business of Supply   about. That will only be fully apparent to the government if the committee is able to have some hearings outside of the Ottawa bubble. I would also like to make a final link: If we had a fair voting system, this unfair elections act would never have hit the floor of the House

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, over the weekend, the Chief Electoral Officer was the latest to speak out against the Conservative's unfair elections act. He said, “...my reading of the act is that I can no longer speak about democracy in this country”. This is unprecedented. The unfair elections

Free Votes  ' undemocratic changes contained in the unfair elections act. Liberals believe strongly in openness and transparency, and we will continue to work hard to ensure that Canadians get the government that they deserve. When we consider different questions in this House, sometimes it is easy

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right. But you see, Mr. Minister, the operative word there is “we”. It's all about we the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister's Office, much like the unfair elections act. There was no sense of, gee whiz, this is about democracy here in Canada so we should

Procedure and House Affairs committee   as Mr. Reid seems to be quite enamoured with this legislation, as far as we're concerned, really this is just the unfair elections act, part 2. There's nothing here, in our view, that helps. In fact, the Chief Electoral Officer started out: It is clear that these new rules

Procedure and House Affairs committee   incorporated into our election laws. I want to make reference to the Chief Electoral Officer. Remember that fellow, the one whom the government didn't consult when they brought all the changes to the “unfair elections act”. He came back to talk about Bill C-50, and one of the things

Citizen Voting Act  , and one of the reasons the Conservative government does not want the bill fully debated is exactly that. When Canadians come to realize that it is step two after the former unfair elections act, they will resist, along with the official opposition.

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, the inevitable has happened. The Conservatives' unfair elections act is being challenged in court. A majority of experts, citizen groups and even some Conservative politicians have strongly condemned this law, which would deprive some citizens of their right

Anti-terrorism Act, 2015  , the member for Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, the NDP public safety critic and me, all speaking to this. I was on people's doorsteps this weekend, and they are very concerned. We hope they will rise up and fight, like they did against the unfair elections act, to try to get the government

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, nearly a year ago, we asked the Minister of State for Democratic Reform if he had consulted the Chief Electoral Officer about his unfair elections act. He said he did, but he did not. Now we have another bill before us that is violating Canadians' right to vote

Citizen Voting Act   of Canadian society, which is that if an individual is a citizen in Canada, regardless of where they live, they have the right to vote. The government will say, as it did in earlier debates around its unfair elections act, that it is making things simpler and streamlining the system

Citizen Voting Act  Mr. Speaker, right now, citizens of France living overseas can vote electronically, and Americans living abroad can vote by email. Bill C-23, the unfair elections act, contains a provision that stipulates that the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada must conduct a pilot project

Citizen Voting Act   “the unfair elections act”—that the effect, at minimum, of these changes in Bill C-50 would voter suppression of citizens living abroad, and something that I am not sure the minister is fully aware of, namely, that it could create chaos with voting in Canada, because of the changes

Business of Supply  , and to the opponents of proportional representation and received their views on it. However, to me, it seems that I am only scratching the surface every time I do this, because there is so much more to discuss. I am surprised, because when we had the Fair Elections Act, or unfair elections act

Privilege   that this is the second time in a year we are having this debate—once in the Senate and now in the House of Commons. I think this demonstrates the need for major change. The Minister of State (Democratic Reform) introduced the unfair elections act. We called it that in the nicest way possible