House Affairs Committee work piling up as fillibuster continues over Standing Order reform push

Among other things, the committee’s review of the chief electoral officer’s report hangs about half-complete.

NDP MP David Christopherson consults with an opposition staffer ahead of resuming the filibuster at the House Affairs Committee on April 5. He alone spoke eight hours in all that day, and for another four hours on April 6. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

April 10, 2017

Locked in a filibuster since last month over the Liberal government’s push to study possible changes to the House Standing Orders, “work is piling up” for the Procedure and House Affairs Committee, says NDP MP David Christopherson, vice-chair of the committee. “It’s a mess, and we’ve ju...

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