Demonstrations: the NDP calls for an emergency debate


NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for an emergency debate in Parliament on Monday night to find a solution to the crisis that has rocked the federal capital for eleven days.

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“We need to see leadership and there hasn’t been that at the federal level,” Singh said during a virtual press briefing Monday morning.

According to him, the goal of the demonstrators is not to put an end to the sanitary measures, but to “overthrow the government”.

A source in the federal government has indicated that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may take part in the emergency debate.

A vote on whether to hold the emergency debate will take place in the House of Commons late Monday afternoon.

If it comes to pass, it would serve in particular as a “platform” to discuss “foreign intervention” in the financing of the convoy, wishes Mr. Singh.

The GoFundMe site blocked the fundraiser supposed to finance the “freedom convoy”, after detecting that part of the funds raised came from abroad, in particular from the United States. The fundraising had exceeded $10 million.

The New Democrat leader is also asking that the Trudeau government present a pandemic exit plan, at a time when many countries are considering changing their approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Today a lot of people are vaccinated and they want to know what it will take to get out of the pandemic. people need a plan [de déconfinement]“, he pleaded.

In the House, Bloc Québécois parliamentary leader Alain Therrien accused the Trudeau government of dragging its feet.




Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com

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