Introduced last September by MP Mark Warawa, the motion read: “That the House condemn discrimination against females occurring through sex-selective pregnancy termination.” If passed, it would have affected no existing law, nor impelled any new law to be drafted. It simply called on the House to condemn a practice that a vast majority of Canadians find despicable...
Free speech everywhere but Parliament
The late-March decision to declare Private Members’ Motion-408 “unvotable” has generated a debate about the control of party leaders and the Prime Minister’s Office over what Members of Parliament can and can’t say in the House of Commons.
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