C-48 is an ‘abomination’: PC Sen Lowell Murray

The Senate National Finance Committee reported the controversial bill back to the Senate without amendments, but not before hearing from several witnesses who slammed the two-page bill for violating the government's normal budgetary process.

Progressive Conservative Ontario Sen. Lowell Murray says the Liberal government's controversial budget bill implementing the backroom deal it struck with the NDP to add $4.6-billion in new spending over two years is an "abomination" and makes a "mockery" of Parliament's control and oversig...

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