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18.02.2022 / 21:09

Live: Police begin push to remove Ottawa’s trucker convoy blockades

Freedom Convoy” that has held taken over the downtown for the last three weeks.Not only were two protest organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, arrested Thursday evening, Friday’s Emergencies Act debate in the House of Commons has also been cancelled.“A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa,” speaker of the House, Anthony Rota, said in a tweet on Friday.

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House leader asks for Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to speak in Canadian parliament next week

Government House leader Mark Holland has asked House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to approve Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to Canada’s Parliament next week.

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Debate on Emergencies Act cancelled due to expected ‘police operations’

House of Commons debate on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s use of the Emergencies Act to handle the so-called “freedom convoy” demonstrations has been cancelled on Friday.There is no indication at this time that the additional debate on Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be cancelled, and a vote is still expected to be held “early next week,” according to the government.A note from Speaker Anthony Rota noted the cancellation is spurred on by an impending police operation set to take place by Parliament Hill and around Ottawa’s downtown core.“The #HoC will not sit today, Friday, February 18. A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa.

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Feds defying order to produce documents on scientists fired from Winnipeg lab: Speaker

House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says the Trudeau government has not complied with an order to produce unredacted documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest security laboratory.In a ruling Wednesday, Rota confirms, as opposition parties have contended, that the Commons and its committees have an unlimited power to order the production of any documents they please, even those with national security implications.Citing national security concerns, the minority Liberal government has refused multiple times to provide the unredacted documents to the special Commons committee on Canada-China relations.In defiance of a House order passed earlier this month, it has instead provided them to the all-party National

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Speaker Rota reflects on 1st year presiding over virtual Parliament amid coronavirus

Anthony Rota is marking his first anniversary as Speaker of the House of Commons by, as he puts it, having his throat slit.He’s having surgery this coming week to remove his thyroid gland, which was damaged by radiation treatment he received almost 35 years ago for the first of two bouts of Hodgkin lymphoma.But it seems a perversely fitting conclusion to a tumultuous year in which Rota has presided over Canada’s first-ever pandemic Parliament.

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Parliament is back in 2 weeks — no one knows how it will function

COVID-19 pandemic.The Liberal government has proposed a full resumption of parliamentary business using a hybrid model — a limited number of MPs actually sitting in the House of Commons and the rest participating online, including by voting electronically.

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Coronavirus: Conservatives want in person Parliament but no electronic voting

Conservatives have crusaded for a return to parliamentary business as usual but they’re opposed to the one thing Liberals and New Democrats insist is necessary to do that in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: electronic voting.Conservative House leader Candice Bergen says her party is suspicious of anything promoted by the Liberals that would keep most MPs out of the House of Commons and, in her view, help the government avoid accountability.Besides, she says there are other options that would allow all 338 MPs to vote in person in the chamber while maintaining physical distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19.In a letter to Commons Speaker Anthony Rota earlier this month, Bergen suggested six different options, including having MPs

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Remote voting amid coronavirus can be done securely: House of Commons Speaker

House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says he is comfortable the technology is in place to safely allow MPs to vote remotely during the hybrid Parliament sittings.

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Virtual Parliament amid coronavirus pandemic won’t be easy. Here are the biggest challenges.

As early as next week, Canadians will have a front-row seat to something that’s never been done before: virtual meetings of members of this country’s Parliament.

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