Brian Lilley
Toronto Sun, Mar. 18, 2024
“The entire chaotic day wasn’t really about foreign affairs, not for the Liberals and NDP, it was about shoring up support in the growing Muslim voting bloc.”
Utter chaos. That is what the House of Commons descended into on Monday, especially Monday night just before an important vote on an New Democrat motion calling on the Liberals to recognize Palestinian statehood.
At the 11th hour, the Liberals introduced a series of 14 amendments that substantially changed the motion. Conservative MPs and some Liberals who had been opposed to the motion stood on points of order to say that dropping these kinds of massive and substantial amendments at the last minute, literally moments before the vote was scheduled, meant they were out of order.
MPs stood and made impassioned speeches on both sides before the amended motion was eventually passed with a vote of 204-117. The Bloc Quebecois, which backed the original motion, said they couldn’t vote on something that wasn’t even available in French. That’s how new these amendments were: The Justin Trudeau government, those defenders of the French language, hadn’t even translated them before they were introduced.
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