Representative
Member
Bloc Québécois
Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association
CA - K1A 0A6 - Ottawa
Canada
Working language: French
20/06/2023 | 17:01:07 Thank you, Madam Chairman. Dear colleagues, On 9 August 2020, Belarus held presidential elections marred by numerous irregularities. The government of Mr Aleksandr Lukashenko waged a systematic campaign of repression before the vote and during the election itself. Following the vote, the results of which were strongly disputed, anti-government demonstrations were violently repressed. Observers reported numerous human rights violations in connection with the elections, which were strongly... 27/04/2023 | 17:02:19 Dear colleagues, As you may know, on March 17, the judges of the International Criminal Court took the extraordinary decision to issue arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his Commissioner for Children's Rights. They are accused of, and I quote, "the war crime of illegal deportation of population and the war crime of illegal transfer of population from certain occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation", and we are talking here mainly about... 26/04/2023 | 19:41:38 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights pointed out last month that the number of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights monitored by the Committee of Ministers has risen from 5 231 at the end of 2019 to 6 256 on 1 March 2023. This is certainly a worrying trend, but as the report by the rapporteur, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU, makes very clear, by 31 December 2021, six countries, and... 13/10/2022 | 17:12:13 Thank you, Mister President. Dear Colleagues, I confess that I was among those who were surprised to see the United Kingdom vote by a small margin in favor of Brexit. The British apparently wanted their independence back. But Quebec would have been offered the same arrangement that England enjoyed within the European Union, which the sovereignist in me would have celebrated. The challenges facing England in the wake of Brexit seem to outweigh the benefits that were expected to flow from it... 22/06/2022 | 17:03:44 Ladies and gentlemen, rapporteurs, dear colleagues, We are holding this debate today, the day after World Refugee Day. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has, as the report presented by the rapporteur Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ reminds us, caused "the largest movement of populations since the Second World War". Although I readily acknowledge that the United Nations Refugee Agency has somewhat reduced its overall assessment of the number of Ukrainian refugees, "to better reflect recent refugee...
26/06/2023 | Doc. 15816 | Motion for a resolution Self-determination and territorial integrity in the 21st century 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15808 | Written declaration Judicial harassment of Turkish sociologist Pınar Selek 05/05/2023 | Doc. 15767 | Written declaration Russian Federation and its occupational forces must immediately release Maksym Butkevych 04/05/2023 | Doc. 15762 | Written declaration Restoring Taiwan’s Observer status with The World Health Assembly for the effective promotion of global health 03/05/2023 | Doc. 15758 | Motion for a resolution Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement