Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre gave a nearly four-hour speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday night to delay a vote on the Liberal government’s Bill C-47, or Budget Implementation Act, which the Tories have been vocal against for its deficit spending measures.
Poilieve began his speech on June 7  just after 8 p.m. and continued until around 11:45 p.m., being interrupted only from time to time by various members raising points of order.
“I am rising today to speak, and to speak and to speak, for the people who have no voice, the people who have been silenced for too long, the quiet ones, the ones who toil away to pay their bills but have no means to pay any longer,” Poilievre said at the beginning of his speech….