Volume of Senator bills ‘clogging’ Chamber time, warn parliamentarians as Senate committee set to study issue

Senators’ public bills represent about one-third of non-government legislation being studied by the House. Senator Percy Downe says the Upper Chamber has 'to be more responsible,' taking care not to 'flood the House of Commons' with these bills.

Bloc Québécois House Leader Christine Normandin said other parties were also 'surprised' by the high volume of Senate public bills before the House of Commons, but she noted MPs can self-regulate the issue.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ELEANOR WAND

May 16, 2026

Bloc Québécois House Leader Christine Normandin says the number of Senate public bills being studied by the House of Commons is too high, and that it's slowing the Lower Chamber's ability to study MPs’ private member's bills.

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