Petitions  Mr. Speaker, my second petition, if I can lift it, is from thousands upon thousands of Canadians across this beautiful land who are very concerned with the so-called unfair elections act. The petitioners are calling on the government to launch a public inquiry and to table

Petitions   of electoral reform legislation that incorporates real recommendations of Elections Canada to get to the bottom of fraud or corrupt or illegal practices, which is exactly the opposite of the unfair elections act.

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has just said that he is hoping that members on both sides would listen to Canadians. For three months, we have been asking him to do just that. Does that mean that he now accepts to hold hearings on his unfair elections act across Canada, like we

Democratic Reform   institutions, I say this to them: Their Prime Minister is leading them off a cliff on this issue, but it is not too late to do the honourable thing: to stand up, speak out, and join the crowd opposing the unfair elections act.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  ...in fact, nobody outside of the Conservative Party of Canada was consulted on this bill before it was tabled in the House, can we have your thoughts on bringing in a complete change to the electoral act as we've seen here with the unfair elections act without any of that consultation

Employees' Voting Rights Act   in through the back door. That is pretty obvious. When he was giving his speech, the sponsor of this bill mentioned Castro and Stalin. What I thought of right away was the Prime Minister. Why did I think of him? It was because of what he is trying to do with the unfair elections act. He

Citizenship and Immigration committee   of the government's record, we saw even this morning that the Prime Minister was unable to identify even one witness who actually supported the unfair elections act. Hopefully that won't be the case in this study, because I know that every single one of the witnesses who have appeared in front

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1  . It basically bides time until 2015, an election year, when the government purse will reopen and the Conservatives will attempt to buy the electorate with their own money. They will try to swing the election in their favour with the changes in the unfair election act and then use taxpayers

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, we think it should be a lot easier for the government to say the words “Sheila Fraser”. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons sent a letter to the committee studying the unfair elections act. He suggested that anyone

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, Sheila Fraser has said that the unfair elections act will exacerbate problems with money in politics, despite the minister's absurd and contradictory rhetoric about this bill somehow taking big money out. Sheila Fraser said that new fundraising exemptions give

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, Sheila Fraser did not pull punches when she was investigating Liberal corruption during the sponsorship scandal. She is a Canadian hero, and she has been clear on the Conservatives' unfair elections act. She calls it an attack on democracy. She is particularly

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   or the unfair elections act. My question to the government House leader is, when can we anticipate that there will be more democracy inside this chamber? When is the government going to take that crutch of time allocation away? It clearly denies the ability of members of Parliament to hold

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1   under Bill C-23, the unfair elections act. Conservatives are getting rid of the provisions that would allow Elections Canada to press forward with charges against some of the Conservative members who have been under investigation for flouting the rules in the way they have prosecuted

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, it is fair to say that it has been a tough week for the government. Ms. Sheila Fraser, who is a personal hero to many Canadians for standing up and speaking the truth, has condemned the unfair elections act as an attack on democracy. Her voice is joined with those

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, the Assembly of First Nations has added its voice to the chorus of Canadians speaking out against the Conservatives' unfair elections act. Today's testimony revealed that urban aboriginals and those living in rural communities will all be negatively impacted