Discussion · Oral Questions
Gabriel Ste-Marie Bloc Québécois
“I want the government to listen to its own Liberal women's group and stop this bill. The Prime Minister is using a temporary tariff crisis to give himself permanent power to skip environmental reviews and Indigenous consultations so he can build pipelines.”
“Mr. Speaker, the Liberal women also denounce the temptation to create “manufactured urgency”. Any claims of urgency should be independently verified before they justify an exemption. The National Women’s Liberal Commission is right on the money. It clearly sees that the Prime Minister is exploiting the tariff crisis, which is temporary, to give himself excessive permanent powers, powers that allow him to bypass environmental assessments and indigenous consultations in order to build pipelines. Women are always the first to suffer when there is authoritarian overreach. Will the government listen to them?”
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal women also denounce the temptation to create “manufactured urgency”. Any claims of urgency should be independently verified before they justify an exemption. The National Women’s Liberal Commission is right on the money. It clearly sees that the Prime Minister is exploiting the tariff crisis, which is temporary, to give himself excessive permanent powers, powers that allow him to bypass environmental assessments and indigenous consultations in order to build pipelines. Women are always the first to suffer when there is authoritarian overreach. Will the government listen to them?