{"content":[{"text":"commercial programs, which often use coercive methods. I was proud to vote in \n favour of banning them.","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.038834,"width":0.656917,"height":0.037658000000000004}},{"text":"A Bizarre Ending to a Difficult Session of \n Parliament","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.275133,"width":0.543014,"height":0.04569599999999996}},{"text":"This was a difficult Parliamentary session. The Trudeau Liberals, at every turn, \n displayed their disdain for the supremacy of Parliament and their absolute \n refusal to listen to advice from Members of Parliament or to share information \n with the Opposition. Canada's democracy was repeatedly undermined by \n tactics in Committee and both inside and outside the House, such as \n passing secret motions on Bill C-10. In that case, the Speaker threw the \n amendments out.","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.339201,"width":0.645556,"height":0.14557400000000004}},{"text":"It was clear again and again the the people Canadians send to Parliament to \n represent them truly are \"nobodies\" in the eyes of the governing Liberals - not \n only 50 yards from the Hill (as Prime Minister Trudeau Sr. famously once said), \n but in the Chambers too.","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.504672,"width":0.64793,"height":0.08082499999999992}},{"text":"Taking their own Speaker to Court","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.605394,"width":0.301674,"height":0.01607499999999995}},{"text":"The final act was the most bizarre. After the House voted four times to insist that \n the government release unredacted documents regarding the firing of two \n scientists with ties to China from the Winnipeg Microbiology Lab, the Liberals \n continued to refuse the orders from Parliament. The committee offered \n compromises, such as allowing the Law Clerk to redact matters of national \n security, and to not release the documents to the public, but still the Liberals dug \n in. The president of the Public Health Agency was called to the bar of the House \n of Commons to receive a rebuke for his disobedience, but still refused to release \n the documents (we suspect, under orders from the Prime Minister's Office).","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.641366,"width":0.662129,"height":0.18874099999999994}},{"text":"The government then took the Speaker of the House to federal court in an \n attempt to overrule Parliament's right to requisition government \n documents. The Speaker - who is of course a Liberal MP - has vowed to fight \n the matter, and issued this statement:","bbox":{"left":0.168304,"top":0.850004,"width":0.6516249999999999,"height":0.08082499999999992}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.168304,"top":0.094127,"width":0.431617,"height":0.148385}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.168304,"top":0.094127,"width":0.431617,"height":0.148385}]}