Procedure and House Affairs committee  On the official opposition side, we have a mixture of members who were here last time and who are feeling somewhat sheepish about what was done with the unfair elections act. We have new members who don't have direct blood on their hands as a result of the last Parliament

Procedure and House Affairs committee   suppression. Why did you feel that way about Bill C-23, referred to by your organization as the “unfair elections act”?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  By 18.3%: do you think it was because of the unfair election act, in part? Was it an unintentional motivator, an unintentional gift, to young people to get out and vote when someone said that maybe they shouldn't have the right to vote?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , or invoking closure until the unfair elections act came. Is my history correct?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   government lawyers will be arguing in favour of the unfair elections act next week in Toronto.

Procedure and House Affairs committee   election to election, since Confederation. A lot of the issues about the unfair elections act were unfair because the act didn't address the 10 things I listed, which this act does not address, either. It's not modernizing elections. It's still allowing a lot of old-fashioned, unfair

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, there is so much in this bill that we and the NDP agree on, and I am looking forward to working with the NDP members to ensure we get this through so we can make those changes to the unfair elections act brought in under the previous government. We can do

Democratic Reform   the unfair elections act through Parliament, and it is wrong when the Liberals do the exact same thing. My question for the government is simple. Will it commit today, yes or no, to not move any changes to our election laws without multi-party—

Procedure and House Affairs committee   reading, but that's not our business. Our business is the committee doing a proper study. It bears some noting that.... I forget the total number of days, but certainly a couple of months were spent on the unfair elections act. Excuse me, it's officially called the Fair Elections Act.

Elections Modernization Act   to be an election issue, with everyone saying, “They did it more. They did it too. They are hypocrites.” We should not live in glass houses if we are going to collect stones. This bill is good legislation. It is very good legislation. It undoes a lot of what happened in the unfair elections act

Elections Modernization Act  Madam Speaker, I heard the heckling when “partisan games” was mentioned. It is quite telling. The unfair elections act was enacted by the Harper Conservatives back in 2014, and it was called the low point of the legislative agenda in that year. It was said to be a partisan

Elections Modernization Act  Madam Speaker, I just want to say it is infuriating, it is disgusting, that we are debating time allocation on this bill. I remember. I was here in 2014 when we had the debate on the unfair elections act. The Liberals were with us. We talked about how we were infuriated

Elections Modernization Act   there and testifying on behalf of the government to what is good about this legislation. Furthermore, we absolutely are here to to make sure that we make changes to the previous unfair elections act so that Canadians have the right to vote. That is exactly what we are doing. I know

Elections Modernization Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to share my time with the member for Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères if I may. [Member spoke in Cree] [English] The unfair elections act was a bill enacted by the Harper Conservatives. It was introduced on February 4, 2014 by the minister

Elections Modernization Act   campaign two and a half years ago to undo some of the changes forced through Parliament by the previous Conservative government in what it called the Fair Elections Act. Many Canadians came to know it as the unfair elections act, simply because in many aspects it sought to do what