The Conservatives are using a fight over documents to stall business in the House of Commons – and to repeatedly accuse the Liberals of ‘corruption.’
WATCH: On the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre used question period to demand the Liberal government condemn the “antisemitic mobs” and their “genocidal chants” against Jewish communities in Canada . Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Justice Minister Arif Virani responded by saying that the federal government has promised to stand with the Jewish people and is against “any form of discrimination.
The debate over the release of the documents has ground business in the House of Commons to a halt for a week.When asked why his party wouldn’t refer the issue to a Commons committee for study — miraculously curing Parliament of its paralysis — Poilievre said he wouldn’t let “corruption” slide so “Justin Trudeau can get on with his day.”
But his deputy leader, Melissa Lantsman, pushed the government on the documents’ contents and why they haven’t turned them over.“How bad are these documents that they would hold this place up for seven days, defying your order and to hide the $400 million that they gave to their friends?,” Lantsman asked.
In June, a Conservative motion demanded the government turn over all documents related to SDTC to the House of Commons law clerk within 30 days. The clerk would then turn them over to the RCMP.
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