Opposition MPs filibuster House Affairs Committee over Trudeau government’s ‘despicable attempt’ to change way House works

Members of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee are in the in midst of a filibuster spurred by the opposition and prolonged by the government over voting on the Liberal motion to expedite the study on changes to the House rules.

NDP MP David Christopherson, Conservative MP Scott Reid, and Liberal MP Scott Simms. There is a filibuster underway at the Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Mr. Simms' motion to have the committee expedite a study on the Standing Orders. The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

March 21, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—Opposition MPs were filibustering the Procedure and House Affairs Committee on the Hill on Tuesday for more than three hours over what Conservative MP Scott Reid called a "despicable attempt" by the government to ram through sweeping new changes to how the House of Commons operat...

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