Independent candidate Derek Sloan, who was booted from the federal Conservative caucus after a known white nationalist donated to his campaign, says he's trading the Ontario riding of Hastings-Lennox and Addington for an electoral district in the Calgary area.
0 >Copy of the Estonian Constitution at a recent constitutional affairs committee sitting at the Riigikogu. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
While many of the over 9,000 proposed amendments to a bill which would give the go-ahead to a referendum on the definition of marriage have been intentionally humorous or even bizarre, one has been attacked, mostly via social media, as in poor taste by the prime minister, foreign minister and other government members, ETV news show Aktuaalne kaamera (AK) reported Saturday.
The amendment proposal, tabled by Reform MPs Urmas Kruuse, Ants Laaneots and Jüri Jaanson, posed the question: Would it be better to live in the Republic of Estonia, if the Republic of Estonia were a part of Russia?
Chair of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas said that during the extraordinary meeting of the Committee of Constitutional Affairs on the marriage referendum bill, the right to ask questions and debate have been taken away from the members of Riigikogu. Kallas added that her party s MPs will submit a protest on the matter to the Board of the Riigikogu.
The opposition made 9,400 amendment proposal to the marriage referendum bill, but the chairman of the committee Anti Poolaments (EKRE) said Wednesday evening that the bill could go ahead for its second reading without all the amendments being discussed. What is taking place, is a severe violation of law. MPs can t ask questions, debate. Reform Party MPs are definitely protesting to the board, Kallas told ERR Thursday.