House Finance Committee tackling massive budget bill alone, while Senate splits it to eight committees

The House Speaker ruled against an NDP call to split the budget implementation bill, ruling it was all related to the 2018 budget.

The first bill to implement Finance Minister Bill Morneau's 2018 budget runs more than 500 pages long, and includes within it an entire new act on greenhouse gas emission pricing. The Liberals promised not to use omnibus bills to pass legal changes on many subjects at once, something the previous Conservative government did regularly.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 30, 2018

The House of Commons Finance Committee is scrutinizing all 500-plus pages of the government’s latest omnibus budget implementation bill after its chair opted not to ask other committees to help out, while the Senate has eight committees planning to dig into the wide-...

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