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.

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

Business of Supply   parties. It was the current Prime Minister who said that this was an abuse of power; this was wrong. Lo and behold, we now have Bill C-23, the unfair elections act, which the Conservatives have designed in its very DNA to be unfair, to be undemocratic, and to allow an advantage

Business of Supply   of the unfair elections act. The Liberal Party has been strongly criticized in civil society groups and community organizations across the country for not having been on this file at all. It is important that the Liberals are now getting involved in what is a pretty fundamental issue

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

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

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

Conservative Party of Canada  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. He also managed the Conservatives' 2004 campaign. How does this stalwart of the Reform-Conservative movement describe his old friend these days? On the weekend, Mr. Flanagan said the unfair elections act shows the ruthless, vindictive, and hyper

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

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  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

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

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

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)

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