Chris's Posts

Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, let us be absolutely clear. Only the Conservatives are under investigation for dirty tricks. The parliamentary secretary knows that.

The parliamentary secretary knows the investigation into voter suppression is getting wider. Investigators were in northern Ontario to interview people there who were victims of this voter suppression scheme. These people were called on election day and directed to polling stations 20 miles away.

Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, 500,000 good manufacturing jobs have been lost since the Conservatives came to power. Instead of building an EI system that supports those laid-off workers, the Conservatives are wasting money on an employment insurance financing board whose advice they continue to ignore. Why have the Conservatives wasted millions of dollars on the EI board instead of using that money to improve EI benefits for hard-working Canadians who lost their jobs through no fault of their own?

Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary's list of fantasy investigations cannot hide the fact that he refuses to answer questions about the actual Elections Canada investigation into his party for electoral fraud. Conservatives are the one-stop shop for voter suppression and illegal election financing.

Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): They love trying to change the channel, Mr. Speaker, but only the Conservatives are being questioned for co-ordinated voter fraud.

The Conservatives paid RMG and RackNine millions in the last election. The Conservatives, and no other parties, are being forced to show their vote database to Elections Canada.

It is the Conservatives who are trying to throw a 23-year-old under the bus for a scheme affecting dozens of ridings across Canada.

Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I would remind the minister that there is no work stoppage right now, there is no lockout, there is no strike, yet the government is invoking closure on a mechanism that would put an end to a work stoppage that does not exist. It is completely absurd.