Both the House of Commons and the Senate adjourned last Thursday for Winter recess.
This means Carney’s budget and border bills C-4 and C-12 will be postponed until February despite the last minute rush to get these two bills out of the HoC; also these are the only two bills passed through the HoC if memory serves me correctly. This is concerning as it shows the deadlock within parliament and how parliamentary committees—weaponized by both the Liberals and Conservatives, with the Bloc now becoming the sole king makers in the absence of the NDP (as is my understanding)—have almost become a tool of obstruction in implementing parliamentary business.
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So as Canada exits its 2025 calendar year of crisis/emergency/inflection point/whatever, the House will have passed a grand total of 7 government bills, 5 of which have received Royal Assent, 3 of which are ordinary ways and means motions.
Maybe Parliament shouldn’t have risen for Summer recess. I struggle to appreciate the sentiment of crisis when the legislature sits for 20 days, rises for 84 days, then sits for another 52 and calls it a calendar year’s worth of work…
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Both the House of Commons and the Senate adjourned last Thursday for Winter recess.
This means Carney’s budget and border bills C-4 and C-12 will be postponed until February despite the last minute rush to get these two bills out of the HoC; also these are the only two bills passed through the HoC if memory serves me correctly. This is concerning as it shows the deadlock within parliament and how parliamentary committees—weaponized by both the Liberals and Conservatives, with the Bloc now becoming the sole king makers in the absence of the NDP (as is my understanding)—have almost become a tool of obstruction in implementing parliamentary business.
!ping Can
So as Canada exits its 2025 calendar year of crisis/emergency/inflection point/whatever, the House will have passed a grand total of 7 government bills, 5 of which have received Royal Assent, 3 of which are ordinary ways and means motions.
Maybe Parliament shouldn’t have risen for Summer recess. I struggle to appreciate the sentiment of crisis when the legislature sits for 20 days, rises for 84 days, then sits for another 52 and calls it a calendar year’s worth of work…