Senate unlikely to vote on sweeping, controversial environmental assessment bill until May or June

The Senate Environment Committee will be grappling with Bill C-69 until at least mid-April and likely later, and Senators hope to tour cities big and small as part of their work.

Independent Senator Patti LaBoucane-Benson, left, non-affiliated Senator David Richards, centre, and Independent Senator Paul Massicotte are part of the 14-member Senate Environment Committee that has begun studying the government's high-profile environmental assessment reform bill, C-69. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 11, 2019

Senators on the Environment Committee are roughly six weeks apart in talks to set an end date for their study on the government’s environmental assessment reform bill, C-69, which will likely bring it up for a final vote in the Upper Chamber in late May or June.

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