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Democratic Reform Mr. Speaker, yesterday the former chief electoral officer testified about serious problems with the government's unfair elections act. He said that the removal of vouching destroys a fundamental fail-safe in our voting system, and he said that limiting the ability of a chief
March 26th, 2014House debate
Employees' Voting Rights Act My colleague was not surprised, Mr. Speaker. Canadians know that the current government has no respect for due process or evidence-based legislation. Just like the unfair elections act, Bill C-525 is another example of this. We are debating a bill that has no evidence
March 26th, 2014House debate
Rodger CuznerLiberal
Offshore Health and Safety Act at committee that the changes being brought forward by the Conservatives in the unfair elections act will not strengthen our current electoral system. In fact, they will disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Canadians. That is not an example we want to set. We want to go in the right
March 27th, 2014House debate
Democratic Reform Mr. Speaker, yesterday at committee, while studying the unfair elections act, we welcomed Mr. Harry Neufeld, the former elections chief of British Columbia. He recently wrote a report on the election of 2011. Because the minister likes to quote from his report, here is what Mr
March 28th, 2014House debate
Scott SimmsLiberal
Democratic Reform Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Bill C-23, the unfair elections act, says that the party who wins one election will get to choose the central poll supervisor for the next election. Do Canadians want more partisans running elections? Before the Conservatives unfair elections act
March 28th, 2014House debate
Ted HsuLiberal
Democratic Reform Mr. Speaker, the former head of B.C. Elections has been delivering stark warnings about the minister's unfair election act changes and his constant misquoting of Mr. Neufeld's report. Harry Neufeld says the bill either needs to be amended or it needs to be killed altogether
March 31st, 2014House debate
Petitions Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise on behalf of the residents of Toronto to present three different petitions. Given the widespread opposition to the government's unfair elections act, it becomes even more crucial that we work in Parliament toward proportional representation
March 31st, 2014House debate
Andrew CashNDP
Privilege cases of fraudulent voting when in fact he had not, all to justify his party's misguided unfair elections act. Once again we have learned that the Minister of State for Finance provided misleading information to parliamentarians and the public at a crucial point in time when federal
March 31st, 2014House debate
Taxation Mr. Speaker, from the unfair election act to Kijiji labour market stats, Conservatives love to cherry-pick facts to defend their ideological arguments, all in an effort to distract away from the very fact that 300,000 Canadians still do not have a job but had one before
April 1st, 2014House debate
Democratic Reform Mr. Speaker, on another unfair elections act front, today in committee my questioning of CRTC lawyers confirmed my suspicions of a huge loophole in Bill C-23's voter contact registry scheme, which was supposed to prevent fraudulent calling to voters. Live calls by a party's
April 1st, 2014House debate
Craig ScottNDP
Business of Supply they are no different from the Liberals when it comes to transparency and accountability. The third example is with respect to the Conservatives unfair elections act. The bill would remove powers from the Chief Electoral Officer. That individual would be stripped of investigative powers as well
April 1st, 2014House debate
Fin DonnellyNDP
Elections Canada Mr. Speaker, last night the Commissioner of Elections Canada told the House that some election fraud investigations would have to be scrapped if the Conservatives’ unfair elections act were ever passed, and we know which ones they are. There is the David Del Mastro case
April 2nd, 2014House debate
Instruction to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs Regarding Bill C-23 with the hon. member for Louis-Saint-Laurent, who seconded the motion. The reason for the motion today, just to give some background, is that our attempt to have Bill C-23—the so-called fair elections act, but what New Democrats are calling the unfair elections act—channelled
April 2nd, 2014House debate
Craig ScottNDP
Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1 laws being changed in this one act alone, is the Conservatives continuing down their very anti-democratic path of fundamentally disrespecting Parliament and the institutions. We see it in the unfair elections act, and we also see it in the next omnibus bill, Bill C-31, which
April 3rd, 2014House debate
Conservative Management Mr. Speaker, sandwiched between the fiascos of their unfair elections act and nomination meetings—where the enterprising Dimitri is blinded by his love for his lady—we find the grain transportation debacle, the dismantling of Canada Post, the closure of service offices for our
April 3rd, 2014House debate
Matthew DubéNDP