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Government House Leader Peter Van Loan chose to shift to notably limited debate on the government’s most recent omnibus crime bill, which Democrats criticized as “nasty” and planned to “stifle debate.” Parliamentarians took advantage of their majority to win the vote on Tuesday morning by a margin of 158-133.
Van Loan’s time allocation motion was provoked by a Liberal attempt last week to delay the legislation by a “reasoned amendment” which would have deleted every page of the more than 100-page bill.
Liberals gave several reasons for stalling the process, alleging the bill overlooks the best evidence on public protection, crime prevention and rehabilitating offenders, the administration hasn’t stated a clear cost estimate, and that bundling so much legislation together “will compromise Parliament’s ability to review and scrutinize its contents and implications on behalf of Canadians.”
While Thomas Muclair says, “If the Conservatives remain bloody-minded about this, that they’re going to impose the guillotine no matter what, and that they’re going to have this show of force, they might be able to use their majority. Canadians will decide that they’re not respectful of our institutions, but they’ll also understand across Canada…that the long-standing argument of the Conservatives that they were different from the Liberals, that they were not going to be downloading massive costs onto the provinces, is a falsehood.”
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