Security watchdog legislation passes first stage in Commons, opposed by Conservative party

The Public Safety and National Security Committee takes ups a separate 'security framework' study.

David McGuinty, who will chair the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, is scrummed by reporters after Question Period on May 15, 2015. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY TIM NAUMETZ

October 5, 2016

Contentious government legislation crafted to deliver on a Liberal election promise to establish parliamentary oversight over federal intelligence and security agencies passed its first hurdle in the Commons Tuesday. MPs voted 200-81 to send the bill to the Commons Public Safety and National Securi...

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