NDP says Liberals at fault for slow progress on testing voting app that is ‘months away’ from being ready

Chief Government Whip Mark Holland says the House is going 'full tilt' in developing and testing the app and is 'almost at the finish line.'

The House of Commons Chamber has only been holding a skeleton crew of MPs since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada in March. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

October 7, 2020

With the laborious voting sessions leading to MPs conducting parliamentary work into the early morning, the NDP says more work should have been done by the government to get the voting app ready for use as it is still “months away” from being ready. The current hybrid voting setup has caused so...

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