Who’s on our side?: Here’s how your MPs voted on Bill C-51

Last Wednesday we witnessed how reckless Bill C-51 got a step closer to becoming the law of the land. The government used its majority to ram the unpopular legislation through Commons after only two days of debate. The legislation - now opposed by a whopping 56% of Canadians with just 33% in favour - will now be considered by the Senate. But many were wondering who were the MPs who sided with Canadians, and who were those who sided against them. Canadians from all political stripes have come together against reckless, dangerous, and ineffective Bill C-51, and top privacy and security experts have spoken out about the serious threat this Bill poses to our democratic rights. Bill C-51 underlines just how worrying Canada’s privacy deficit has become in addition to undermining our constitutional rights in many other ways.

But the government decided to disregard the many voices against it, and the Conservative and Liberal MPs voted in favour of Bill C-51 with 183 votes. The brave 96 MPs who said no to the unpopular legislation were the NDP, the Green Party, the Bloc Quebecois, independent MP Massimo Pacetti MP, and Jean-Francois Larose MP from Forces et Democratie.

Here is how your MPs voted, ordered by province: