House committee studies: do they get results, how would we know?
Some 50 per cent of the government responses to House committee recommendations in the years sampled do not clearly respond to them, either by accepting or rejecting. An enormous amount of committee work over the past 25 years has gone into a kind of limb
In a typical session of Parliament, standing committees of the House crank out between 60 and 90 substantive reports, often running to 50 pages or longer. These reports make between 500 and 1,000 recommendations to the government, request comprehensive written responses to most of them, and ulti...
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