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Feds ‘making haste’ with massive elections overhaul bill ‘dangerous,’ says expert

A government deadline that drew an abrupt end Thursday to detailed committee examination of its controversial election legislation is a ‘dangerous’ tactic for a new law that is at the core of Canada’s democratic system, one of the country’s leading parliamentary experts says.

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BY TIM NAUMETZ
May 2, 2014

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Feds ‘making haste’ with massive elections overhaul bill ‘dangerous,’ says expert

A government deadline that drew an abrupt end Thursday to detailed committee examination of its controversial election legislation is a ‘dangerous’ tactic for a new law that is at the core of Canada’s democratic system, one of the country’s leading parliamentary experts says.

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