Western Standard - April 29, 2026


Brock accuses Liberals of ‘dominating’ committees, calls Gladu a ‘sellout’

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Bill C-63 Pierre Poilievre Marilyn Gladue

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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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00:00:00.000 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?
00:00:11.000 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.
00:00:27.000 So if you look at percentages, they're just slightly above 50%.
00:00:31.620 To give them a majority, all they had to do was add one seat, okay, to six.
00:00:37.980 They didn't do that.
00:00:38.920 They added seven because they wanted to dominate the committees,
00:00:43.120 basically shut down the opposition,
00:00:45.580 shut down our ability to examine the important issues that are plaguing Canadians.
00:00:52.300 Particularly on the justice front,
00:00:54.260 there are a number of bills that purportedly address the ongoing crime levels in this country
00:01:01.780 and you know it remains to be seen how effective now opposition is going to be
00:01:08.020 in terms of advancing various amendments common sense amendments to improve the bill so we start
00:01:15.360 clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-16 today. So given that we have since learned about
00:01:25.440 additional Liberal members, one being a former Conservative member who voted very strongly
00:01:34.160 against the government's approach to crime and justice issues, who wanted to improve
00:01:41.200 C-14, much beyond what we were actually able to get. She was very critical of components of Bill
00:01:49.200 C-16. So I'm going to be very curious to see, A, is she going to weigh in on certain amendments?
00:01:56.960 Is she going to now be a hypocrite in terms of the positions that she has previously taken 0.86
00:02:03.200 on government bills, particularly Bill C-16? Or is she simply going to be a parrot now for the 0.98
00:02:09.440 the Liberal Party and espouse their views. She said this morning and she was just walking by
00:02:15.000 she said that she's happy to be on the Justice Committee today and do you think that she wanted
00:02:19.120 that appointment specifically that she have an agenda here? Well she has no justice background
00:02:23.700 she may have sat on justice well for as long as I've been the vice chair I know she participated 0.76
00:02:30.500 a couple of occasions as backfill for some members I know she participated in the debate
00:02:36.620 on C9 with respect to the Liberals supporting the removal of the religious defense.
00:02:43.080 She was very critical of that long before she crossed, obviously, the floor.
00:02:49.060 But what else is she going to say?
00:02:51.700 Of course, she's going to say that she's happy wherever they placed her, right?
00:02:55.580 But it's going to remain to be seen whether or not she holds true to her convictions
00:03:01.640 that she shared with Canadians, that she shared with constituents,
00:03:06.620 that she shared with her former colleagues on the deficiencies of government bills.
00:03:11.300 Well, she even spoke before she crossed in January that she would oppose
00:03:15.720 or support a by-election mechanism when it comes to floor crossing as well.
00:03:21.060 Perhaps she has a different view today. Maybe she has a different view.
00:03:24.580 I guess it applies to everybody else except her.
00:03:27.120 Well, regardless, she mentioned to me and I spoke to her
00:03:29.920 that she cited some differences with the leadership of the party
00:03:33.960 as to why she crossed the floor.
00:03:35.340 And of course, other MPs who crossed the floor as well
00:03:37.300 said that you didn't support Pierre Polyev in the beginning.
00:03:39.940 Listen, she ran under the Conservative banner in 25.
00:03:45.880 She ran under the leadership of Pierre Polyev.
00:03:49.540 She proudly espoused all of our party platforms
00:03:54.300 and policy ideas moving forward,
00:03:57.060 bringing a different vision to Canadians
00:03:59.380 for the 2025 election.
00:04:01.160 You don't abandon all of that literally overnight because you have a particular problem with a member of our party.
00:04:10.000 She's a sellout.
00:04:11.880 She basically betrayed the confidence that her voters, her constituents gave her. 0.92
00:04:18.260 It's no small wonder that she's completely absent now in her writing. 0.91
00:04:22.400 She doesn't even open up her office.
00:04:24.560 Okay, you've got a number of constituents who are writing on social media.
00:04:29.060 They've got legitimate concerns with respect to various services that members of parliament routinely help constituents with.
00:04:38.480 She's not serving anybody in that community. 1.00
00:04:41.880 She's serving her own selfish best interests.
00:04:45.640 Thank you.