Bill C-216

Oral Questions

… Speaker, a year ago tomorrow, most of the Liberal caucus and all Conservatives teamed up to defeat Bill C-216 for a health-based approach to substance use. If it had passed, today we would have a multi-faceted plan to fight the toxic drug crisis, based on the recommendations of the government's own expert ta…

Government Orders

…s about decriminalization. I was proud last year to support the hon. member for Courtenay—Alberni's Bill C-216, which called for a national drug strategy and called for Canada to move toward decriminalization. That bill did not pass, but I still support its intent. The other day, the hon. Leader of the Opposi…

Government Orders

… the House listen to the experts. I travelled across this country when I was talking about my bill, Bill C-216, which was just a reflection of the Expert Task Force on Substance Use. I was able to meet with people on the front line of this crisis, such as people who use substance and experts, and the whole ti…

Private Members' Business

…prised to see the Conservative members exclaiming that the public servants' arguments in defence of Bill C-216 were very good. I am somewhat experienced when it comes to politics, and I know that when a government is moving in one direction, it is very rare that the public servants who come to testify in comm…

Private Members' Business

…s have also spoken against the legislation. When the bill was before the previous parliament it was Bill C-216, and there were several questions that were asked with respect to it. I will quote one section. Mr. Doug Forsyth said: If we were to end up with this bill as it is written, I think very much that we …

Private Members' Business

…overnment ended up portioning off parts of the marker. That is why we came up with Bill C-282 after Bill C-216 died on the Order Paper. Although the Bloc Québécois is introducing this bill, it is not ours alone. It expresses the will of most parliamentarians. It expresses the will of our farmers, especially Q…

Private Members' Business

…been tabled and, if not for the unnecessary election that the Prime Minister called in August 2021, Bill C-216 might have made it to the Senate by now. By contrast, the House had to adopt four motions unanimously to ask the federal government to fully protect supply management. However, the Liberal and Conser…

Private Members' Business

… will sleep on it, but let us not take anything for granted, even though Bill C-282 is identical to Bill C-216, which, in case it needs to be repeated, received the support of a majority of members before the last unnecessary election. I travelled around some of Quebec's major agricultural regions with my col…

Private Members' Business

…l C-282 may sound familiar to some members and to some Canadians because it is an identical copy of Bill C-216 from the previous Parliament, which was introduced by another Bloc Québécois member of Parliament, the dean of the House of Commons, the hon. member for Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel. Members will recall …

Private Members' Business

…ous to see where the Conservatives will land on this bill because, in the previous Parliament, when Bill C-216 was brought before this House, I believe the Conservative caucus was split. About a third of them supported it and two-thirds were against. I can understand the awkwardness for the Conservative Party…