Government looks to counter what Harder calls Conservatives’ ‘coordinated’ stall tactics in Senate and House

‘Government business has been proceeding at a snail’s pace,’ Sen. Peter Harder wrote in a recent discussion paper about improving the efficiency of Senate business.

In a 21-page paper, titled 'Sober Second Thinking: How the Senate Deliberates and Decides,' Sen. Peter Harder makes a pitch for a Senate 'business committee' to get around the current situation, as he describes it, of legislation being stalled by the opposition. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

April 10, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—Amid a filibuster at a key House committee, successive procedural moves in the Commons, and an at least one government bill taking nearly a year to progress through the Senate, govern...

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