Senate more unpredictable, as Conservatives boycott planning meetings over ‘O Canada’ bill manoeuvring

The government also introduced its long-awaited changes to the environmental assessment laws in the House last week, and is set to send its political fundraising bill to the Senate.

Conservative Senators Don Plett and Elizabeth Marshall chat during a committee meeting last year. The Conservative Senate caucus is up in arms over the way the National Anthem Bill was passed in the Senate at the end of last month. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 12, 2018

The Conservatives' deputy leader in the Senate is skipping daily planning meetings with her counterparts as a “consequence” of the way the controversial National Anthem Bill was passed in the Red Chamber, a move the government’s deputy in the Chamber says would m...

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