Democratic Reform   elections act. Why is the minister using this bill to make it harder to vote instead of helping Elections Canada to better recruit and train election-day workers?

Privilege   not once, but twice, in referring to so-called evidence that he had personally witnessed with regard to the unfair election act, is quite an accomplishment, not one that anyone in the House should seek to do, and yet he has managed to. The reason we take time in the House

Committees of the House   and must be aware that he is being used by the PMO in order to delay the House for three hours through this tactic rather than discuss the merits of one of his colleagues who knowingly misled Parliament in order to justify and rationalize the Conservatives’ unfair election act

Committees of the House   is an important word, and words matter for those of us who are engaged in this public service. Our words should matter. The Conservative member for Mississauga—Streetsville was caught out. He told something that was not true in order to rationalize a bad election bill, an unfair election act

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister and all Conservatives just now voted to delay a debate that was going on in the House about a Conservative MP who misled Parliament about the Conservatives' own unfair election act. This is what they have resorted to, because they do not have

Statements by Member for Mississauga—Streetsville—Reference to Standing Committee   the truth about a flawed and unfair elections act proposed by his same government?

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, like so many things this government does, the unfair elections act was simply thrown together, and the only consultations the government did were with other Conservatives. This bill takes away the commissioner's direct signing authority at Elections Canada. Instead

Privilege   debated in the House. It is the fair elections act. They refer to it as the unfair elections act. I do not know what they are referring to. The name of the bill is fair elections. There is partisanship on display, big time, yet again.

Privilege  , that he saw voting cards being removed in order to stuff ballots by people who did not have a right to vote in those locations. I find that very troubling. I think we should be able to get to the bottom of it. Calling Bill C-23 the unfair elections act is merely marketing

Procedure and House Affairs committee   law, the Conservative election law, the unfair elections act. We have much to learn from those who came before, and I can tell you, Chair, that it cost them in their own time and their own constant dollars just as much money as it would have cost us, and it would have taken just

Procedure and House Affairs committee  ” or the “Unfair Elections Act”. But the one thing it is not is a fair election law, and we can't get to that determination, Chair, until we get a fair process. That, to bring it back again, is why my motion was put forward, constructed in the way it was. The government still has a way

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, let me ask the Prime Minister a simple question that so far he has refused to answer. Did anyone involved in writing his unfair elections act speak to campaign operatives at Conservative Party headquarters while it was being drafted? Can Canadians please have

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, the fact that the Prime Minister will not answer that simple question speaks volumes. Is the Prime Minister dodging the question because he knows the unfair elections act was designed by his party to make it more difficult to vote for people who do not vote

Business of Supply   curtailed, frankly, so that the instructions from the Prime Minister's Office overcome the individuals' possible concerns about what their own government is doing. Lastly, what I call the unfair elections act is another tool that is undermining the confidence of the public. Our

Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Act   the unfair elections act introduced by the Conservatives. At every step along the way, the Conservatives have chosen cynicism over any scrape of democratic value. Today they introduced time allocation on a first nations treaty that we agree with. We had a small amount of debate last