Online Streaming Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to ask my colleague a question about algorithms. The department has already said that it wants to focus on results in terms of discoverability and not intervene directly in algorithms. I am just wondering, though, how do we get the results we want without going through the algorithms, which play a fairly significant role nowadays in these kinds of platforms and social networks?

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the government forced a vote on this country's first-ever use of the Emergencies Act. Forty-four hours later, on Wednesday, the government announced that it was revoking the declaration. On Monday night, we were apparently facing the most serious national emergency of the 21st century.

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, I think the minister read from the wrong page because there are a lot of questions like that one which the government is refusing to answer. The people have the right to know. That is why the Bloc Québécois welcomes the Prime Minister's promise to expand the inquiry into the use of emergency measures to include the role of the police, the convoy's funding sources and misinformation.

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, the occupation of Ottawa is over. There is not a single truck left in the streets, and the protesters have been dispersed. The police are in control of the situation and life is getting back to normal. However, the House will vote tonight on invoking the Emergencies Act to address what the government is wrongly calling a “national crisis”.

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, that is completely absurd. The Prime Minister wants us to vote in favour of special legislation when there are no trucks and no protesters in the streets of Ottawa to get rid of. The Prime Minister has turned this into a no-confidence vote, so if we oppose it, it will trigger a second useless election in six months.

Public Safety  Mr. Speaker, let us continue with this theatre of the absurd. Dozens of truckers who have left Ottawa have threatened to return as soon as possible. How long does the Prime Minister plan to maintain the emergency measures? Will he keep them in place forever, even if there is no longer a crisis, just in case the truckers come back?

Emergencies Act  Madam Speaker, my colleague wondered whether the NDP had lost or changed its convictions, since it took a firm, clear position against the War Measures Act in 1970. I would say to him that we are critical of people living in echo chambers right now because they only hear what they want to hear.

Emergencies Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the member for his speech. I really appreciated it. He is right. It is deplorable that people's opinions have turned into an issue, an argument among friends and family, and between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. All of this has clearly exacerbated the divisions in Canadian society.

Emergencies Act  Mr. Speaker, I see that tempers are flaring. I will change my question because I want us to get back to the debate. We are talking about the Emergencies Act, an act that has never been invoked since it was passed in 1988. There is a reason for that. I think that there are other tools that could have been used before we got to this point, which brings me back to my question.

Emergencies Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. Ironically, this morning I received an Instagram notification, which reminded me of what happened exactly two years ago, specifically the rail blockade of—

Emergencies Act  Mr. Speaker, I think we need to be careful because this debate is not just about the abuse that was committed during the protest. This movement took hold because some truckers were against mandatory vaccination for cross-border truckers and then the situation deteriorated. I do not want to minimize the movement, but the member said that the use of the Emergencies Act was the result of the government's lack of leadership.

Emergencies Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his wonderful and heartfelt speech. He shared some rather personal stories and I thank him for that. However, there is a police operation that has been happening right before our eyes on Wellington since yesterday morning. We can watch what is going on on television, and it reminds me a lot of the images I was seeing last weekend at the Ambassador Bridge.

Emergencies Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The Bloc Québécois has not changed its position. From day one of the siege, we have been calling on the government to do something, to take responsibility, to create a crisis task force and to work with law enforcement, the Mayor of Ottawa and the Premier of Ontario in a concerted and coordinated way.

Emergencies Act  Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. As I said in my speech, using the Emergencies Act now sets a dangerous precedent, given that it has not been used since being passed in 1988 and that so many governments have refrained from doing so. The act gives the government and law enforcement the power to use extraordinary measures.

Emergencies Act  Madam Speaker, sometimes I do not know whether the question is coming from the NDP or the Liberal Party, because they sound the same. Yes, it is a crisis, but it would not have gotten as serious as it did if the federal government had taken its responsibilities from day one. This is not a national crisis.