House spring sitting most productive one for Trudeau government, 14 bills received royal assent in last six months

Centrepiece legislative achievements include the final passage of the Cannabis Act, and the government’s corresponding drug-impaired driving bill.

House Leaders talk: Government House Leader Bardish Chagger, left, Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen, and NDP House Leader Ruth Ellen Brosseau. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

June 25, 2018

Thanks to a final end-of-sitting push, which included an extra week of late-night sittings, the Liberal government had its most legislatively productive House sitting yet, with 14 bills passed and granted royal assent over the last six months. “This sitting has been productive. I think we have ad...

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