This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The federal government is succeeding its two heavy and controversial budget bills of last year with a more modest piece of legislation, which is not very different from what was anticipated in the budget released last month by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. The first act, aimed at implementing measures already announced in the 2013 budget, is simply 115 pages long and is majorly associated with economic plan.
The Conservative government tabled two huge omnibus bills last year, both of which constituted of more than 400 pages each, and radically revised the environmental legislation and made severe changes to areas including employment insurance, Old Age Security benefits and the Fisheries Act. These bills provoked the opposition to move hundreds of amendments, and ended up producing an overwhelming set of protests by First Nations.
However, Mr. Flaherty has now alleged that this new legislation is more of a “minibus” than an omnibus. He mentioned after tabling the budget bill in Parliament on Monday, that “it’s significantly shorter than the first bill last year because we did a lot of the heavy lifting last year.” Additionally, Flaherty stated that “we will ask the finance committee to allocate some of the issues to different committees so that the bill can move along through the committee stage more quickly. All of it is reflected in the budget of March 21st.” The finance critic for the opposition New Democrats, Peggy Nash, asserted that this legislation is still an omnibus bill that changes more than two dozen laws, and “many of these changes are significant,” so “we have to go through it.”
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