Canada's Green Party leader Elizabeth May has accused the Conservative Party of having "hyped up" controversial gun-grab Bill C-21, and called on them to stop "to keep the scum from rising to the top."
Green Party leader calls Conservative supporters 'scum' for opposing Trudeau’s gun grab | Western Standard - Christopher Oldcorn:
May 17, 2023 - Green Party leader Elizabeth May MP (Saanich-Gulf Islands, BC) referred to Conservative supporters who disagree with Trudeau’s gun grab as 'scum.' May commented during a debate on Bill C-21 An Act to Amend Certain Acts and to Make Certain Consequential Amendments (firearms), while wearing a World Economic Forum pin in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
"'I do enjoy the use of Yiddish proverbs and one comes to mind from Tim Robbins Still Life with Woodpecker. The reason you have to keep stirring the stew, you have to keep stirring because otherwise, the scum rises to the top,' said May. 'So here in this place, we have to stir and stir and do what we should do for Canadians....
"'I ask in that context if he doesn't find it troubling the very bills that have been, I would say with due respect, hyped up in terms of the rhetoric by the Conservatives in this house are the ones that come back to him' said May....
"'Does he think that perhaps it would it would behoove my friends in the Conservative Party to try and be more balanced in what's wrong with a bill?' said May. 'What's good with the bill and how we work together to give Canadians the best possible meal and keep the scum from rising to the top.'
"Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, AB) responded and defended his constituents concerned about the 'overreach' of Trudeau’s gun grab.
“'I'm a little worried, Madam Speaker, that the way she just described my constituents who are emailing me on this issue. They deserve to be heard, not to be name called,' said Kmiec. 'They are concerned not because of what we are saying on the side of the house. They are concerned because the contents of the legislation is bad news for them.'
"Kmiec defended his constituents and said they came to him with their fears about Trudeau’s gun grab. 'I don't need to go around into my constituency raising fears. They are fearful on their own. I happen to have more meetings on C-21 and firearms legislation in the past six to eight months from constituents that do not reach out to me on a regular basis,' said Kmiec....
"May did not retract her 'scum' statement."
Video courtesy Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
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