Feds could table budget early April then use two-week recess to avoid questions in House, say opposition MPs

Opposition MPs say the House schedule means the government could deliver a budget on April 1 or April 2, then use the two weeks off to sell it across the country without a House forum for opposition criticism and questions.

PARLIAMENT HILL—The government decision to delay its 2015 budget until April has set up a perfect storm of key votes in the Commons that could corner the opposition over two vastly different controversies long speculated as potential issues for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to exploit in a...

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