Bill C-24

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moved that Bill C-24, An Act for granting to His Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2027, be read the first time and printed. (Motion deemed adopted, …

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…too young to remember, the Leader of the Opposition was also part of the government that introduced Bill C-24. Not only did it seek to create second-class citizens, it also gave itself the power to revoke citizenship for dual citizens by targeting nearly one million Canadians. Therefore, it is not a surprise…

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…willingness to strip Canadians of their rights and identity. In 2014, the Conservatives also passed Bill C-24, which allowed them to revoke the citizenship of dual citizens. This created an entire category of second-class citizens whose status as Canadians is insecure. Further, we know that the Leader of the…

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…the bill contained anything about pipelines, because they did not read it. Here is another example: Bill C-24, appropriation act No. 2, 2022-23. It represents $115.056 billion and change. By “change”, I mean a few hundred thousand dollars. Bill C-54, appropriation act No. 2, 2023-24, represents $108,700,157,…

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moved that Bill C-24, An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, be read the third time and passed.

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moved that Bill C-24, An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, be concurred in at report stage.

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moved that Bill C-24, An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, be read the first time and printed. (Motion deemed adopted a…

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… attention of members a few germane rulings on this matter. On April 22, 2009, the Speaker ruled on Bill C-241, an Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act, removal of waiting period. The Speaker stated: [T]he chair is of the opinion that the provisions of Bill C-241 would authorize a new and distinct charg…

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…se benefits at that time. I wish I could say it ends there, but it does not. In fact, it goes on to Bill C-24, where we had to come back and close loopholes that allowed international leisure and other non-essential travellers to claim the Canada recovery benefit, but that made individuals required to quaran…

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…e bill I remember they brought through in 2017 as a higher priority than the conversion therapy was Bill C-24. At the time, and I was using another Seinfeld quote, I called it “a bill about nothing”. Basically, the bill changed the bank account the old ministers of state were paid from in the estimates proce…

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…he House of Commons to support a 50-week benefit. When I tried to amend a previous government bill, Bill C-24, to include a 50-week benefit, one of the arguments, which I did not find compelling, made by folks on the government side was that making changes to the software that undergirds the EI system was ve…

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…of Persons with Disabilities, my colleague from Elmwood—Transcona tabled an amendment to government Bill C-24 that would have extended employment insurance benefits from 15 to 50 weeks. I do not understand why the Bloc member for Thérèse-De Blainville voted against this amendment, agreeing with the committee…

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…ave not addressed this issue. The Liberals had a chance to include parts of Bill C-265 in their own Bill C-24, but they decided against it. To top it all off, we learned last week that the government has decided to refuse royal recommendation for Bill C-265, so its odds of being passed by the next election a…

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…r for Kingston and the Islands in this matter. During his remarks, he mentioned my efforts to amend Bill C-24 by proposing a similar amendment in committee. The committee chair ruled that the amendment required a royal recommendation. The Bloc Québécois member on the committee voted in favour of the royal re…

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…ttention of the members a few germane rules on this matter. On April 22, 2009, the Speaker ruled on Bill C-241, an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act regarding the removal of a waiting period. The Speaker stated: ...the chair is of the opinion that the provisions of Bill C-241 would authorize a new an…

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It being 1:30, pursuant to order made Thursday, March 11, Bill C-24, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (additional regular benefits), the Canada Recovery Benefits Act (restriction on eligibility) and another Act in response to COVID-19, is deemed read a th…

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…ay tactics on a number of bills in the House, saying that they really should not be doing that with Bill C-24 because it is very important to get it passed. We heard that at committee yesterday. I had proposed a very simple amendment, and this talk about delay and about the importance of getting this done ca…

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…ssible, so I did not vote against it. As I said yesterday, I voted on the opportunity to strengthen Bill C-24 so that the House could pass it the following morning and extend the EI regular benefit period to 50 weeks.

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…k the member her opinion on the role of the opposition in the House of Commons. The NDP thinks that Bill C-24 should include a provision on extending EI sickness benefits. In my opinion, it is our duty as politicians and members of the opposition to look for opportunities to push the government to include su…

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…, workers across Quebec and Canada are waiting with bated breath to see whether the House will pass Bill C-24, which is currently before us. These people are holding their breath because they are desperate to know whether they will receive EI benefits. The number of weeks of benefits they were entitled to ha…