Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, on the situation we find ourselves in this week, and last year with Bill C-39, we can draw a direct line back to the Senate amendment that was placed on Bill C-7. The government did a complete 180. It came out with a charter statement explaining why it was excluding

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that we have gotten ourselves into trouble with the use of arbitrary timelines. The Senate amendment to Bill C-7 kicked the can down the road two years. Last year's Bill C-39 added a year, and now Bill C-62 would add three years. I just want

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, I would like to inform the you that I will be splitting my time. Today, we are not debating Bill C-62; we are actually debating Motion No. 34, which is a programming motion to get the bill through the House of Commons. We are having to resort to a tactic that I

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, the New Democrats actually also voted against what I thought was an ill-advised Senate amendment to Bill C-7. There is plenty of blame to be thrown around. I understand that. I have done more than my fair share this week against the Liberals, but the fact

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, I agree with many points my hon. colleague made in her speech. It is why I voted against the Senate amendment to Bill C-7 in the previous Parliament. It is why I voted for the member for Abbotsford's bill, Bill C-314. It is why I agree with the recommendation

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62   we are here. We have to go back to Bill C-7 and the Liberal government's 11th hour, inexplicable decision to accept a very consequential Senate amendment to it, which got us into this mess in the first place. The Senate changed the law without having done the proper research

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, it has been reported in the media that some senators have been openly musing about blocking Bill C-62. Given that we are dealing with such a short timeline, I am just wondering whether my colleague has any thoughts about the unelected Senate's openly voicing

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62   some painkillers, I will let him defend himself. However, on what Bill C-62 is doing, we are dealing with a March 17 deadline. This morning, the Conservatives voted against time management of the bill. However, he must understand that we only have two sitting weeks to get the bill

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62   a legislative requirement built into Bill C-62 that the special joint committee would be reconvened. I hope it would be done with plenty of runway to give this particular subject the time it deserves, which I frankly would say most Canadians expect.

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Madam Speaker, the member for Cumberland—Colchester had a couple of factual errors in his speech. The NDP voted against Bill C-7's amendment that brought this in. We supported the member for Abbotsford's bill, Bill C-314, and we support the majority report. We have never been

Health committee  Thank you. I'd like to turn to Minister Virani, if I could. You were mentioning, to paraphrase the Supreme Court, that they were going to give a high degree of deference to Parliament when legislating in this area because of how sensitive it was. When Bill C-7 was first

Health committee  Thank you. I am going to take issue with two of your earlier comments. I do think, actually, that this issue has been punted down the road. It was punted down the road by two years with the Senate amendment. It was further punted down the road by one year of Bill C-39. Now

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all of our witnesses for helping to guide us through this part of the study of Bill C-62. I've been a member of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying from the beginning, and I'm very familiar with the subject

Government Business No. 34—Proceedings on Bill C-62  Mr. Speaker, as the parliamentary secretary well knows, we really only have two sitting weeks left for this bill to reach the Governor General's desk. We are already pretty much halfway through one of those two. I think that the House of Commons is going to do its duty and pass t

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be standing in the House today to join debate on Bill C-62. Forgive me if I am feeling a bit of déjà vu right now, because it was precisely one year ago, in February 2023, that the House was in a similar position with the earlier bill, Bill C-39