Charlie Angus

[Privilege, October 8th, 2024]

On a point of order, Madam Speaker, is the member asking the Speaker to put pressure on the Prime Minister? I do not think that is appropriate. I know you do have a caucus tomorrow, Madam Speaker, but he is saying “you will be putting pressure” and I just want to clarify.

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, we are in a situation where the whole House has said that this issue is serious so let us send it to PROC. The Conservatives have decided to stop the work of Parliament so they can carry on about all the Liberal crimes through the years, which is all based on not having memory.

I remember Brian Mulroney, who accepted cash in a paper bag in a hotel room. The great parliamentarian Pat Martin told him that Hell's Angels and drug dealers accept money in a hotel room in a brown paper bag, but former prime ministers do not. The reason I mention Brian Mulroney is we have now learned that Stephen Harper hit the taxpayers up for CERB payments. We know how the Conservatives hated CERB. They did not think that people who could not work should be given any help. The CERB was there for waitresses and maintenance workers, not Stephen Harper. Here is what Harper and Associates claims he offers, the “insight of a G-7 Leader to create value for clients.”

Do members think this grifter deserved money to survive the pandemic on the pension that he gets? I would like to ask the hon. member about the attacks the Conservatives waged against people during the—

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I certainly respect the rules, but to make a claim that I do not work for my constituents, I would say that would be a lie, but you would call that unacceptable. You have asked him to withdraw—

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

On a point of order, Madam Speaker, that is just so cheap. After 20 years of service, do I have to put up with this guy? Could you ask him to withdraw and apologize? I come here to do—

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I am concerned, because when the hon. member began his speech, he made a false claim that the people I represent and the New Democrats were laughing about a serious issue. What we were laughing at was that his own party—

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, on a point of order, I am shocked that 15 seconds into the member's speech, he is launching vicious personal attacks. I would ask him to withdraw them. If he heard any laughter, it was about the insincerity.

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I love listening to my Conservative colleagues, who are all shocked and appalled by the old corruption and insider gifts that go back to the rum bottle politics on the Rideau. I certainly remember Nigel Wright and the secret cheques. I remember Mike Duffy, the most unworthy Senate candidate since Caligula appointed his horse. Now we have another example of insiders getting graft and looking after their friends. I say welcome to Ottawa.

If Conservatives are serious about this, why are they filibustering a motion to get this to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs so we can deal with it? We have work to get done in the House. Let us get this motion to PROC; let us investigate this and do what Parliament should do instead of wasting our time with useless speeches about all the shock and horror that Liberals have been bad. My God, they have been bad forever. We have better things to do than go through the lowest hits. I would ask the Conservatives this: Is Dean Del Mastro out of jail yet?

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Madam Speaker, I am very interested in this issue of accountability and sharing documents. We find in a June 2024 national security and intelligence committee report that foreign agents for the Chinese and Indian governments interfered with the Conservative leadership race. Those documents are redacted, but I am sure the Conservatives know a lot more than they have told the Canadian people, and those documents back up the interviews with Erin O'Toole and with lawyers about interference that led to the guy who is living in Stornoway now.

As such, I am asking my hon. colleague whether the Conservatives are willing to share those documents about foreign interference, because it might explain why the leader of the Conservative Party is unable or unwilling to get national security clearance. What is he trying to hide?

[Privilege, October 7th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I was away last week in Dublin at the European security council meetings. Then I came back to find that we are again playing the games of the Conservatives.

There was so much to be discussed in Dublin. I believe my hon. colleague was there. I think of this song:

Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown
The passing tales and glories, that once was Dublin town

Then I came back here to see this sort of gamesmanship.

I would like to say to my hon. colleague this: While the Europeans are talking about Ukraine, the climate crisis and Gaza, here we are in Canada with a dysfunctional, abusive party that is interfering with democracy.

I would like to get my hon. colleague's thoughts on that, and if she would like to share a song from Dublin, I would be more than happy to hear it.

[Points of Order, September 26th, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, I will keep my remarks to a minute, and I hope you let me finish.

We heard the tape. I have listened to the tape. What we did not hear was an apology. I just want to understand whether the Speaker is saying that a Conservative member can make a homosexual slur against the Prime Minister of the country, and it is okay; the Conservative member can defend himself by speaking for a good ten minutes. Is that the standard we have in the House? We would like to know if it is the standard the Speaker is bringing because it would very much clarify where we go from here.