Parties yet to discuss throne speech, confidence vote plan as pandemic puts wrench in usual pomp and circumstance

'With all the turmoil in the government over the past week, there's not been any dialogue at all with opposition parties,' says NDP House Leader Peter Julian.
The House Chamber has only been filled with a skeleton crew of MPs to allow for social distancing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With less than a month until the Liberals put forward a new plan for governance, the parties have yet to deliberate on how a confidence vote on that plan can occur in the midst of a pandemic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) stated his intention to have a vote on the throne speech whe...

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