Discussion · Government Orders
Billy Morin Conservative
“The government took over a year to bring back this bill, and it is mostly the same as the old one. I want the member to explain why the government waited so long instead of bringing the old bill back right away.”
“Madam Speaker, earlier my colleague spoke about “performative” with respect to the government. One of the biggest criticisms I have heard since the beginning of the new session of Parliament is that, as she mentioned, it took more than a year to reintroduce a bill that has some important distinctions from the last bill but in a lot of ways, probably in the vast majority of the bill, remains the same. I am wondering if the member could expand on why, she thinks, the government is doing things differently all of a sudden as opposed to just following up with Bill C-61 right out of the gate.”
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Madam Speaker, earlier my colleague spoke about “performative” with respect to the government. One of the biggest criticisms I have heard since the beginning of the new session of Parliament is that, as she mentioned, it took more than a year to reintroduce a bill that has some important distinctions from the last bill but in a lot of ways, probably in the vast majority of the bill, remains the same. I am wondering if the member could expand on why, she thinks, the government is doing things differently all of a sudden as opposed to just following up with Bill C-61 right out of the gate.