Budget bill, marijuana legalization looming, as opposition parties fuming

With budget implementation and marijuana legalization priorities for the government during the remaining weeks of this House sitting, it faces an opposition still digging in its heels on the issue of Standing Order changes.

Government House Leader Bardish Chagger is is holding firm with her view that opposition parties' demand for all-consent on Standing Order changes amounts to a veto for the Conservatives on Liberal election promises. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DEREK ABMA

May 1, 2017

The Liberals might be feeling like the Burt Reynolds character in the movie Smokey and the Bandit: “We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there,” went the theme song to that important piece of 1970s cinema. After being away for the last two weeks, MPs are back in Ottawa ...

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