Hybrid House sittings will further boost PMO and opposition leaders’ control over backbench MPs, says former Grit cabinet minister Easter

Liberals have weakened the accountability measures in the House, and should remember they will not be in power forever, says Bloc MP Alain Therrien.

Former Liberal cabinet minister Wayne Easter, who served for 28 years as an MP, says that the hybrid House sittings will further weaken MPs' role in holding the government to account. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA, JESSE CNOCKAERT

June 19, 2023

The decision to make hybrid House sittings permanent will further strengthen the control of the Prime Minister's Office and opposition leaders’ offices over backbench MPs, and weaken the accountability process of powerful political figures in the country, says a former Lib...

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