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Family-friendly Parliament study expected this week, some measures could be implemented this year
By Rachel Aiello Jun. 13, 2016
The Procedure and House Affairs Committee has finished drafting its report on how to make Parliament more inclusive and it's expected to include recommendations to improve Hill day care.
Procedure and House Affairs Committee chair Larry Bagnell told The Hill Times that he expects the report on making Parliament more family-friendly to be tabled this week. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
A study into how to make Parliament more family-friendly is expected to be tabled this week, and members of the committee say some measures, including changes to Hill child care, could be made this year. “What we have with the report is really a snapshot of the highlights of things that we all feel are very important, things like child care on the Hill,” committee member and Liberal MP Ginette Petitpas Taylor (Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, N.B.) told The Hill Times last
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