Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. Of course, our opinions differ.
Patrick Taillon, a respected law professor at Université Laval who is well known in Quebec, told Radio-Canada today that it is not enough to argue that a law is useful based on what the Ottawa police chief says. He pointed out that the government also has to show that the use of the act is necessary or essential, saying, “That is where the government is at a disadvantage, because it is difficult to prove that it is necessary or essential when the normal legal tools were not used during the first 14 days of the crisis.”
Why go from doing nothing to the most radical solution? We are not convinced that the government tried everything before getting to this point.
In short, why did the tortoise turn into a hare?