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Question Period, Parliament Returns and the Sex-selective Abortion Act
Scrums, news conferences, committees, conferences – highlights from the working day in Canadian politics. (Public affairs) During Question Period, government ministers respond to opposition concerns about Canada’s slow COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole holds a news conference on Parliament Hill, where he discusses Canada’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. He also faces questions on Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall’s private member’s bill on sex-selective abortion. O’Toole says he will vote against the bill but declines to say if he will direct his shadow cabinet to do so as well. At a press conference in Ottawa, Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall discusses her private member’s bill, the Sex-Selective Abortion Act (C-233). If adopted, the bill will prohibit a medical practitioner from performing an abortion if the reason is based on the gender of the child. Wagantall is joined by Dr. Kiely Williams, as well as by Tabitha Ewert, legal counsel for We Need a Law. At a virtual press conference, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul discusses the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic.