More than $41.4-billion in spending goes without Commons committee review

An additional $17.1-billion of supplementary spending estimates was concurred in by the House on June 17 without committee review, as committees stagnate with filibusters.

Liberal MPs Sherry Romando, left, Scott Simms, Ruby Sahota, Ken McDonald, Emmanuel Dubourg, and Karen McCrimmon chair the six House committees that didn't perform reviews of the 2021-22 main estimates. A joint committee, which hasn't elected a chair, also didn't review the estimates. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and file photograph and photograph courtesy of Twitter

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BY NEIL MOSS

June 23, 2021

Amid committee filibusters, six House committees and a joint House and Senate committee did not review main spending estimates under their purview before the deadline last month leading to $41.4-billion of federal expenditures not receiving parliamentary committee scrutiny. Main estimates, which to...

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