Madam Chair, I appreciate the opportunity to ask a question that speaks very much to the relevance of the debate. That member has admitted to conduct that is unbecoming—
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Softwood Lumber Dispute with the United States December 1st, 2021
Madam Chair, I appreciate the opportunity to ask a question that speaks very much to the relevance of the debate. That member has admitted to conduct that is unbecoming—
Softwood Lumber Dispute with the United States December 1st, 2021
Madam Chair, I have a point of order. I think that the issue brought up in the previous two points of order speaks to the integrity of our democratic system.
When there are serious questions about the legitimacy of somebody being able to take their place in the House, it calls into question—
An Act to Provide Further Support in Response to COVID-19 November 29th, 2021
To do our job.
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It is called doing our jobs.
An Act to Provide Further Support in Response to COVID-19 November 29th, 2021
Madam Speaker, I will ask a very simple question in the context that we are more than two months behind what should have been the regular sitting calendar of this place. Many, many weeks' worth of legislative work was delayed, stopped and interrupted by the Prime Minister, who called an election on which, let us just say, he misrepresented himself in previous statements until the point where we have now learned that he received polling information that he could divide Canadians on controversial issues.
Does the member support an expedited reinstatement of committees, so that we can get to work studying legislation like this for the benefit of Canadians?
Petitions November 29th, 2021
Mr. Speaker, it is good to be able to present petitions in the House that are important to Canadians.
The particular petition that I have to present today is on behalf of numerous Canadians who call on the Parliament of Canada to enshrine in the Criminal Code the protection of conscience for physicians and health care workers from coercion or intimidation to provide or refer for assisted suicide or euthanasia. This is something I have heard from many Canadians, including health care professionals, who see these protections as absolutely essential for the functioning of a free and democratic society.
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Like an election.
An Act to Provide Further Support in Response to COVID-19 November 29th, 2021
Madam Speaker, once again, it is good to be able to ask some very important questions. I heard the member reference a number of times the importance to get this work done, and I agree. Therefore, my question is very simple.
Does that member support the immediate reinstatement of committees, so the House can get to work for Canadians?
An Act to Provide Further Support in Response to COVID-19 November 29th, 2021
Madam Speaker, it is an honour to stand in Canada's Parliament once again to represent the good people of Battle River—Crowfoot.
I will make this question short. The member talked about the urgency to ensure that we as parliamentarians can get to work for Canadians. Would he therefore support the immediate reinstatement of committees, so that this House can actually get to work doing things like studying Bill C-2 and the many issues that were cancelled because of the Liberal Prime Minister's unnecessary election? Would he support the immediate reinstatement of parliamentary committees, so that we can in fact get to work?
Broadcasting Act June 22nd, 2021
Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to both this speech and the previous speech, and specifically the member's impassioned explanation of indigenous history that needs to be told.
My concern is about allowing the state, in this case the CRTC as an agent of the state, to determine what content meets a certain satisfactory requirement to be prioritized in the next-to-play or the algorithm that shows up in someone's feed. If the state, for example, were to try to diminish some of its history, then it would put the very content that the member is so passionately defending at risk of being silenced.
I am just curious as to how the member would reconcile some of the concerns that have been outlined with this bill about the possibility of state intervention, and specifically with the Liberals being able to determine what that may or may not be. How does he reconcile that with the need to ensure that there is actual freedom of expression so that these voices can be heard and, in the example that he shared, that this Canadian history can be told and accessed—