Home Senator Plett's latest articles and speeches Senator Plett on Bill C-30: Trudeau’s 2021 Budget sprays money around carelessly without targets. June 29, 2021 June 29, 2021 (Ottawa, ON) - The Honourable Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, issued the following statement: Honourable senators, I also rise today to speak to Bill C-30. My speech won’t be quite as complimentary as others have been, and you may find that surprising. Nevertheless, let me point to some of the truths and realities of Bill C-30 and not the mess we have been told here so often — first of all by the Minister of Finance, as well as by many senators — about how… June 29, 2021 Read More Senator Plett’s Speech at the Second Reading of Bill C-6 June 28, 2021 June 6, 2021 (Ottawa, ON) - The Honourable Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, issued the following statement: Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-6, and although I rise as a critic of this bill, I wanted to make it very clear from the outset that I am very supportive of a well-defined ban on coercive conversion therapy. As much as the Liberals try to make it appear otherwise and, unfortunately, even my good friend Senator Cordy did just a minute ago, Conse… June 28, 2021 Read More “The government is rolling the dice” with Bill C-15: Senator Plett’s Third Reading Speech June 15, 2021 June 15, 2021 (Ottawa, ON) - The Honourable Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, issued the following statement: Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-15, An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I want to start my speech by outlining that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its Call to Action No. 53 asked for the creation of a national council for reconciliation. Part of the mandate of the council would be… June 15, 2021 Read More See All Senator Plett's Social Media Senator Plett on Facebook Facebook Senator Plett on Twitter Click to see the latest tweets Senator Plett on Youtube Senate Conservative Caucus Leadership Leader of the Opposition Plett, Donald Neil C - Manitoba (Landmark) Deputy Leader of the Opposition Martin, Yonah C - British Columbia Whip of the Opposition Seidman, Judith G. C - Quebec (De la Durantaye) Chair of the Conservative Caucus Poirier, Rose-May C - New Brunswick (Saint-Louis-de-Kent) The Whole Conservative Caucus
Senator Plett on Bill C-30: Trudeau’s 2021 Budget sprays money around carelessly without targets. June 29, 2021 June 29, 2021 (Ottawa, ON) - The Honourable Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, issued the following statement: Honourable senators, I also rise today to speak to Bill C-30. My speech won’t be quite as complimentary as others have been, and you may find that surprising. Nevertheless, let me point to some of the truths and realities of Bill C-30 and not the mess we have been told here so often — first of all by the Minister of Finance, as well as by many senators — about how… June 29, 2021 Read More
Senator Plett’s Speech at the Second Reading of Bill C-6 June 28, 2021 June 6, 2021 (Ottawa, ON) - The Honourable Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, issued the following statement: Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-6, and although I rise as a critic of this bill, I wanted to make it very clear from the outset that I am very supportive of a well-defined ban on coercive conversion therapy. As much as the Liberals try to make it appear otherwise and, unfortunately, even my good friend Senator Cordy did just a minute ago, Conse… June 28, 2021 Read More
“The government is rolling the dice” with Bill C-15: Senator Plett’s Third Reading Speech June 15, 2021 June 15, 2021 (Ottawa, ON) - The Honourable Don Plett, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, issued the following statement: Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-15, An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. I want to start my speech by outlining that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its Call to Action No. 53 asked for the creation of a national council for reconciliation. Part of the mandate of the council would be… June 15, 2021 Read More
