Replying to Maxime Blanchette-Joncas (Bloc Québécois)
“Mr. Speaker, only one in three people in Canada have confidence in its institutions, including Parliament. Given the Liberals’ tactics for poaching members from both the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party in order to secure a majority, this is by no means a run-of-the-mill situation. It is the first time this has happened in Canadian history. I would like my colleague’s thoughts on something. Does he think that the public will gain or lose trust in institutions when they fail to respect the will of the people as democratically expressed in elections?”
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Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 30 wordsthis question of trust in institutions is a very important one.We would all like to see a situation in which institutions are both trusted and worthy of that trust.PositioningPartly on pointClaims · 61 wordsOur democratic institutions, though, have been weakened over the last 10 years under the Liberal government.We see continuing efforts to undermine those institutions, including the failure to hand over documents when ordered to, efforts to unilaterally impose changes on the structure of Parliament and the pursuit of power regardless of the constraints that are supposed to exist on that power.1Reasoning · 36 wordsThat has implications for how Canadians view, and feel represented within, our institutions, and the right response is for those institutions to try to rise to the occasion and be worthy of that trust once again.
