Conservative Senators poised to kill Bélanger’s national anthem bill

‘Our job is to take things to a vote,’ says Senate sponsor of C-210 Frances Lankin, an Independent, who accuses Conservative Senators of deliberately adjourning debate and proposing a change to it in hopes the bill will die.

'The Conservative caucus has taken a position that they’re going to do everything they can to prevent a vote on O Canada,' says Independent Senator Frances Lankin, left, sponsor of the bill to make the national anthem gender neutral. An amendment by Conservative Senator Don Plett, right, would, if passed, need to go back to the House, in which the bill now no longer has a sponsor.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright and Cynthia Münster

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

May 31, 2017

Conservative Senators may have found a way to kill the late Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger’s private member's bill proposing to make the lyrics of O Canada gender neutral. The Senate sponsor of the bill to change the national anthem, Independent Senator Frances Lankin, says the “partisan�...

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