“Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate my fellow British Columbian, the member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands, and her intervention today. I know she is very passionate. She is a parliamentarian because she cares about this place. Part of the tradition of this place is making sure that there are reasonable expectations on the executive and she talked about the massive powers the Liberals justified in Bill C-5 that gave them essentially the ability to exempt almost any law. At the time, they justified it under an emergency, so Parliament set a five-year sunset clause on it. Clause 102 in Bill C-39 removes that stop, giving future governments complete access to all of those powers from there on in. What does she have to say about those expanded powers for the executive at the expense of Parliament?”
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Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 18 wordshonestly, I was shocked because not only is this bill is badly drafted, it is also deceitfully drafted.PositioningUnearned certaintyClaims · 109 wordsUsually when we look at the summary of a bill and what it says it is going to do in the front few pages it would say that it is amending Bill C-5, 2although it is not called Bill C-5 anymore, the Building Canada Act, in the “following ways” or “including the following”.We would think the important things are going to be listed when we do A, B, C, D, but the Liberals forgot to mention repealing section 5.1 of the Building Canada Act, 1which is the exact point my friend has raised, which is repealing the sunset clause without any effort to draw anyone’s attention to it.Positioning · 4 wordsIt is absolutely shocking.Positioning
