The motion's chance of passing this Parliament is 'slim to none,' says one MP, but the government House leader says she is 'more than comfortable' with a proposal for the Procedure and House Affairs Committee to study the motion.
Liberal MP Frank Baylis, Liberal MP Scott Simms, NDP MP Murray Rankin, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, and Conservative MP Michael Chong. Mr. Baylis held a press conference May 2 on his motion to change the Standing Orders, M-231, along with Mr. Rankin and Ms. May and Ms. Simms. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
A backbench Liberal MP is recruiting support for a motion to take control over speaking time and committee chairs away from the parties’ House leadership, and make a series of other changes to the Standing Orders governing how the House operates.
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Liberal MP Adam Vaughan wants the Doug Ford government to publicly release the allocation criteria used for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in different regions of Ontario.
The government must keep workers on the job, say business lobby groups. The longshoremen's union says the Liberals should publicly rule out the use of back-to-work legislation.
Nearly 2,700 people in Canada died from an opioid-related overdose between April 2020 and September 2020, according to the Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses.
Barring residents who haven’t been vaccinated from travelling to another province may be the unlikeliest of scenarios, but Prof. Krishnamurthy says he sees certificates being used to confer benefits to pass holders.
The political instinct is to ‘accept no risk’ when solving a problem, but that’s not how the ‘real world of medicine’ works, says former emergency-room doctor and Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski.
Last July, a landmark Federal Court ruling declared the 17-year-old refugee pact violated the Charter. Today, the appeal court disagreed, and so the treaty will remain in effect.