Public Complaints and Review Commission Bill
Motion in Amendment--Debate Adjourned
May 23, 2024
Therefore, honourable senators, in amendment, I move:
That the motion be not now adopted, but that it be amended by deleting the second paragraph.
Senator Plett, would you take a question?
Can you confirm to us that the bills for which you quoted comments by Senator Cordy and Senator Joan Fraser were bills where you encouraged a pre-study?
No, I will not confirm that. I will confirm that it was a Conservative government in power, and that I was a backbencher.
However, Senator Harder, as I mentioned, you were debating — as the Leader of the Government in the Senate — that we should have a pre-study that Senator Terry Mercer objected to.
I think those would be the correct facts.
To take this one more round, you did reference Senator Carignan, who would, I’m sure, confirm that it was a bill with a pre-study of which he was encouraging, as your leader.
And for my colleagues, it’s hard to imagine the Honourable Senator Plett as a backbencher.
Let me first of all say, again, Senator Harder, that I would never say these types of questions are a colossal waste of time. I think they add something to the debate.
Yes, Senator Carignan was my leader at the time while I was sitting in the back corner.
