Mon Feb 14, 2022 – 4:18 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) House of Commons motion calling upon the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to end all COVID mandates was defeated Monday afternoon.
A total of 151 MPs voted in favor of the motion brought forward by the CPC interim leader of the Loyal Opposition Candice Bergen last week, with 185 voting against it.
CPC and Bloc Québécois MPs voted in favor of the motion, with the NDP and Liberal MPs voting against it.
The motion reads, “That, given that provinces are lifting COVID-19 restrictions and that Dr. Theresa Tam has said that all existing public health measures need to be ‘re-evaluated’ so that we can ‘get back to some normalcy’, the House call on the government to table a plan for the lifting of all federal mandates and restrictions, and to table that plan by February 28, 2022.”
Bergen had demanded last week that Trudeau release a plan at once to end COVID mandates.
She said her motion was an “opportunity” for MPs to support “calling for a concrete plan that gives Canadians a roadmap out of COVID-19
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