Brock accuses Liberals of ‘dominating’ committees, calls Gladu a ‘sellout’
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In this episode, we discuss the newly appointed Justice Committee, the new committee chair, and what it means for the future of Bill C-16. We also discuss the decision by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Peter Demers, to cross the floor and vote in favour of floor crossing.
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So what do you make of the new Justice Committee formation, specifically referring to the fact that you have a former colleague who aided the majority government formation, Marilyn Gladue, who will be on that committee as well?
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Well, the first comment I would make, and this is what we debated in the House when the motion was first introduced, I believe on Monday, was that it does not represent the number of seats that they have in the House.
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So if you look at percentages, they're just slightly above 50%.
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To give them a majority, all they had to do was add one seat, okay, to six.
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They added seven because they wanted to dominate the committees,
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shut down our ability to examine the important issues that are plaguing Canadians.
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there are a number of bills that purportedly address the ongoing crime levels in this country
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and you know it remains to be seen how effective now opposition is going to be
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in terms of advancing various amendments common sense amendments to improve the bill so we start
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clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-16 today. So given that we have since learned about
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additional Liberal members, one being a former Conservative member who voted very strongly
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against the government's approach to crime and justice issues, who wanted to improve
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C-14, much beyond what we were actually able to get. She was very critical of components of Bill
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C-16. So I'm going to be very curious to see, A, is she going to weigh in on certain amendments?
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Is she going to now be a hypocrite in terms of the positions that she has previously taken
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on government bills, particularly Bill C-16? Or is she simply going to be a parrot now for the
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the Liberal Party and espouse their views. She said this morning and she was just walking by
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she said that she's happy to be on the Justice Committee today and do you think that she wanted
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that appointment specifically that she have an agenda here? Well she has no justice background
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she may have sat on justice well for as long as I've been the vice chair I know she participated
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a couple of occasions as backfill for some members I know she participated in the debate
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on C9 with respect to the Liberals supporting the removal of the religious defense.
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She was very critical of that long before she crossed, obviously, the floor.
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Of course, she's going to say that she's happy wherever they placed her, right?
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But it's going to remain to be seen whether or not she holds true to her convictions
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that she shared with Canadians, that she shared with constituents,
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that she shared with her former colleagues on the deficiencies of government bills.
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Well, she even spoke before she crossed in January that she would oppose
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or support a by-election mechanism when it comes to floor crossing as well.
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Perhaps she has a different view today. Maybe she has a different view.
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I guess it applies to everybody else except her.
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Well, regardless, she mentioned to me and I spoke to her
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that she cited some differences with the leadership of the party
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And of course, other MPs who crossed the floor as well
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said that you didn't support Pierre Polyev in the beginning.
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Listen, she ran under the Conservative banner in 25.
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She proudly espoused all of our party platforms
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You don't abandon all of that literally overnight because you have a particular problem with a member of our party.
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She basically betrayed the confidence that her voters, her constituents gave her.
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It's no small wonder that she's completely absent now in her writing.
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Okay, you've got a number of constituents who are writing on social media.
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They've got legitimate concerns with respect to various services that members of parliament routinely help constituents with.
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She's not serving anybody in that community.
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