COVID-19 bailout bill passes after late-night negotiations on new government powers

What was supposed to be a quick, co-operative sitting of the House turned into a negotiating stalemate for hours on March 24 and Nov. 25.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet offers his party's House leader, Alain Therrien, hand sanitizer as the House of Commons opens its sitting after Parliament was recalled to discuss emergency measures to help Canadians with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 24. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

March 25, 2020

Liberal and opposition MPs unanimously agreed to pass the government's bailout bill through the House of Commons in the early hours of March 25, after more than 12 hours of last-minute negotiations over new powers for the government to act without parliamentary oversig...

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