Fair Elections Act   on some of the fundamental aspects of the unfair elections act. Unfortunately, they have also shut down the study of this bill with half of the NDP's common sense amendments still under debate. In good faith, the NDP proposed close to 100 ways to improve this widely denounced bill

Fair Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, once again, I rise to talk about Bill C-23, the unfair elections act. We have sat through committee. We have gone through several amendments, the vast majority proposed by the government. I would love to say that I take satisfaction in knowing that two of my

Business of the House  -23, the unfair elections act, time allocation of closure and forcing that through this morning; after these deplorable attacks, the question is very simple. Will the Conservatives stop their attacks on eminent Canadians who happen to disagree with them and what will the government

Fair Elections Act   the March 2012 motion when the government had agreed that it would be tabling a bill within six months and 18 months after that deadline passed. All that time was spent coming up with a bill that we have dubbed “the unfair elections act”, which explains why the first motion

First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act   that the Conservatives maintain is unbelievable. We have also suggested this. The Conservatives refused, on their unfair elections act, to have parliamentary hearings outside of Ottawa, because the Conservatives wanted to keep the conversation in the bubble as they were rigging our electoral process

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We don't agree with it. It's wrong. It should be the unfair elections act. (Short title agreed to: yeas 5; nays 4)

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yeah, well, I'm not sure the public is going to be particularly impressed by that “hear, hear”, given that this committee now has to go through over 200 pages of the unfair elections act and dozens and dozens of amendments without even having any sort of debate. My question

Business of the House   the Speaker of the House have to call this government to order. Now the government seems to be doing the same thing with Bill C-23, the unfair elections act. The committee was working to address many of the problems that exist in the bill. The NDP, as it always does, offered sound

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, some amendments to the unfair elections act are finally being accepted after overwhelming criticism of the bill from experts and ordinary Canadians alike. However, the government still refuses to give investigators the power to get to the bottom of election fraud

Procedure and House Affairs committee   forced to agree to, this bill will be better than Bill C-23, that is, the unfair elections act, as tabled by the minister, but it will be still much worse than leaving the current Canada Elections Act in place.

Democratic Reform   the Conservatives' unfair elections act, forcing them to accept amendments to Bill C-23. I also see hope in the widespread support that has greeted the important private member's bill, the reform act by the Conservative MP for Wellington—Halton Hills, which would allow MPs to return to working

Democratic Reform  Abuse is okay, Mr. Speaker, but it is unacceptable levels of abuse that are not okay. I get it. We would like to know why that minister thinks that compelling the production of documents is a good idea, and yet the minister responsible for the unfair elections act refuses

Business of Supply   to allow those Conservatives who have the integrity to stand in their place and say what is happening today with the elections act. It is not the fair elections act, it is the unfair elections act, and the Conservatives know it. This is a Conservative elections act. However, we

Business of Supply  . That flaw was especially revealed in the way that the Conservative government has operated with respect to Bill C-23, the fair or unfair elections act, whatever members want to call it, depending on their perspective, and how the regime would impose its will to the exclusion of all other

Privilege   misleading the House in order to justify its wrong-headed policies. The opposition to the unfair elections act is mounting and virtually unanimous. Conservatives stand to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters who, by many assessments, are coincidentally not usually Conservative