House leaders brace for jam-packed, late-night legislative push in final ‘high-octane’ weeks of spring sitting

The House is back for four final weeks before it adjourns for the summer and the government is expected to try again rolling out changes to the House rules and table bills on political financing and national security.

NDP House leader Murray Rankin, parliamentary secretary to the government House leader Kevin Lamoureux, and Conservative House leader Candice Bergen say they are expecting a busy four weeks of late-night sittings, as the government endeavours to have a productive end to an otherwise slow-moving legislative session.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

May 29, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—In the last legislative push before the House rises for the summer, the government wants to wade well into the debate on the suite of marijuana legislation, pass the budget bill, introduce new legislation on political financing and anti-terrorism, and implement contentious new rule...

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