Digital Privacy Act   government MPs, so that this bill is taken apart and rewritten in the way this procedure would allow. I myself stood in the House to move unanimous consent to have Bill C-23, what New Democrats called the unfair elections act and the government called the fair elections act, referred

Copyright  , when people misquote, it is because they have something to hide. Why does the government want to change the law to serve the Conservative Party's partisan interests, like it recently did with the unfair elections act?

Copyright  Mr. Speaker, as we have now heard, the Conservatives have a plan to change copyright rules in order to create an advantage for themselves in the next election. I guess the unfair elections act was not enough. Talk about repeat offenders; it seems Conservatives are once again

Electoral Reform  Mr. Speaker, in their unfair elections act, the Conservatives got rid of the Commissioner of Canada Elections with no reasonable explanation. Some asked a very valid question about the cost of this administrative fiasco deemed useless by all the committee witnesses, including

Reform Act, 2014   will continue to speak out against it, is the unfair elections act that was introduced last spring. It will cause serious problems in upcoming elections. While we are witnessing an alarming increase in democratic apathy and while strong and informed action should be taken to rouse voters

Justice   securities commission plan. Despite these setbacks, the Conservatives stubbornly continue to introduce flawed bills. Many aspects of the unfair elections act are unconstitutional. The same goes for their immigration reform, which will certainly end up before the courts. When

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   Southwest, from representing my constituents' views on things like the budget or Bill C-23, the unfair elections act. The Conservatives continually cut off debate. I am rising to speak to Bill C-20, an act to implement the free trade agreement between Canada and the Republic of Honduras

Extension of Sitting Hours   that there is a lot of reason for cynicism and despair on behalf of the Canadian people. They look at the unfair elections act, to take one example of one bad piece of legislation. The government seems to be unable to find one expert witness anywhere to defend its act. At any point

Extension of Sitting Hours   that normally function that make this democratic place a democracy. Only the Conservatives can use them. It is unbelievable. If we had not been through the unfair elections act, where the Conservatives were trying to subvert the next election campaign, we would actually think this could

Business of Supply   it was the in-and-out scandal, illegal election fundraising, robocalls, the Senate scandal involving both Liberal and Conservative senators, temporary foreign workers, maligning a Supreme Court justice, or creating an unfair elections act, the government has been determined to undermine the CBC

Business of Supply   with the unfair elections act and repeatedly over the last few years. It is not only under the Conservatives that the government has been eroding CBC/ Radio-Canada's capacity to fully play its role. It started well before. It started under the Liberals. The gradual erosion of CBC and Radio

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, it is with a certain degree of disappointment that I must rise in the House today and challenge members of the government caucus for passing the unfair elections act at third reading. It is an act widely panned as an attack on our democracy. It is a bill whose

Fair Elections Act  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate my colleague for her spirited and passionate presentation on the unfair elections act. I believe we are debating the amendment moved by the member for Toronto—Danforth in which he proposes that we decline to give third reading to this legislation. I

Fair Elections Act   attack by first nations representatives? This electoral reform, this unfair elections act, will make it harder for aboriginal people to exercise their right to vote. It will also come under attack by students at schools and universities, who will no longer be encouraged to vote

Fair Elections Act   the current government was capable of. They read the bill, they understood it, and they used very strong language. “Stack the deck” is something that clearly suggests an effort to create an unfair elections act, the opposite of the title of the bill, the “fair elections act