Speaker Anthony Rota in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 21, 2021. Mr. Rota called the court action an urgent matter and vowed to vigorously fight the government.The Liberal government is taking the House of Commons Speaker to court, in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of uncensored documents to members of Parliament that offer insight into the firing of two scientists from Canada’s top infectious-disease laboratory.
“The Speaker’s Office will defend the rights of the House. That is something I take very seriously,” Mr. Rota said. “The legal system does not have any jurisdiction over the operations of the House. We are our own jurisdiction. That is something we will fight tooth and nail to protect and we will continue to do that.”
Mr. Dufresne told MPs before a Commons committee Wednesday that “to his knowledge” the Canadian government has never before gone to court to try to elude an order of the House to produce documents.He said the House “has exclusive authority” when it comes to matters that fall under parliamentary privilege.
More than 250 pages of records have been withheld in their entirety and hundreds of others have been partly censored before being provided to MPs. They also relate to the March, 2019 transfer of deadly virus samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology that was overseen by Dr. Qiu. Former House of Commons law clerk Rob Walsh said the Federal Court should deny the Trudeau government’s request.
JustinTrudeau has LOTS to hide. If i were the judge i would issue CanadianPM arrest warrant and have him publicly arrested from Parliament.
Well south park did say blame Canada Obviously USA co conspirator could be Canada Follow Fauci
Wow Freedom gone Canada gone Nobody with a back bone to stand up to the bully these days
Trudeau knows dam well he’ll be exposed for what he and his government are if this gets out eliminating any possible chance of ever getting elected and possible charges.
‼️CPC_HQ tried to bribe a dying Independent MP‼️ ‘PM Harper said there is 'absolutely no truth' in allegations that CPC_HQ tried to bribe a dying Independent MP. A recording of an interview he gave at the time seems to suggest otherwise.’ In QP, CPC_HQ denied. 🤦🏻♂️ cdnpoli
JustinTrudeau DavidLametti Right. Like the instructions to fight the release of docs by invoking s.38 of the Canada Evidence Act didn’t come from the highest level of gov’t? How stupid do you think Canadians are?
Where is the transparency and accountability you promised when we voted for you JustinTrudeau? If there’s nothing to hide, there is no need for this…
What are they hiding?
Good... Working with China is very difficult now and made worse with all these conspiracy theories continuously spread around by idiots with nothing else to do. Failure of open democracy is due to people using freedom to make up stories of what they want rather than understand.
“If the government does not respect the orders of the House of Commons, why should Canadians’ respect laws voted upon by the House of Commons?” JustinTrudeau and liberal_party love taking Canadians to court… cdnpoli
Well played
The Crime Minister and his Mafia at work!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What a huge circle jerk
What are the Liberals hiding?
JustinTrudeau DESPERATE MUCH!!! What is this government hiding? TrudeauMustGo TrudeauCorruption TrudeauFailedCanada TrudeauWorstPMEver
I hope PC pushes tooth and nail until documents are obtained and canada knows what Trudeau jas really done...I smell cover up
The government is suing the government and both sides using taxpayer dollars ... FireTrudeau JustNotReady
Protection for Chinese spies, I wonder who this government is working for is it Canadians or …?
The optics of this for Liberals is horrendous - what are they hiding? Must be really bad
Pure insanity, elected Parliament being taken to court? This is Trudeau transparency cdnpoli
why.
Coverup!
Is this Harry Potter?
this is exactly how they want to use BillC10 to hide their own actions from the voting public the are supposed to serve but treat like infantile cattle, it is an undemocratic abomination. VOTERS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW. THIS ISNT CHINA
That is a BRIGHT green chair!
The most corrupt and unethical government in first world history aided by the paid for media. Globe and mail should not only be ashamed but is complicit and every employee should be in jail
Time everyone is united as Canadians first and stop the tyranny. TrudeauDictatorship TrudeauCorruption
Time to circle back to demand answers on when and why the early pandemic alert system was turned off... why we had the vaccine schmozzle... and this.
What are they hiding? That is the real question and concern!
common conservative mps thinking high level national security issues are their business.🤣 stay in your lanes. how about fixing the roads, quelling murderous racism in our streets, housing the poor, mps leave on the streets every night. its not your jobs and your not qualified!
globepolitics Its what he did after. Cutting checks to Wuhan, transferring Ebola research to India, etc He should have worked with parliament rather than secretly, alone, under emergency zetc.
hollyanndoan This is how Liberals role. Minority Government behaving like the Mafia. Aye aye aye
'The Liberal government'. How are these people allowed to do this?