Government House Leader Baird tried to get Commons to adjourn earlier and to pass sex offenders crime bill
Opposition MPs accuse the government of using the crime agenda as a ‘political football’ to garner political and financial support while taking up valuable legislative space with bills even the government in some cases does not seem in a rush to pass.
PARLIAMENT HILL—In last-minute bargaining before Parliament adjourned for Christmas, Government House Leader John Baird asked the opposition MPs to move ahead one of the principal government’s crime bills in order to adjourn even earlier, a Liberal MP says.
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