At committee: Shipbuilding, seniors and budget pre-study By Kady O Malley. Published on May 25, 2021 6:30am House and Senate committees are set to get back to work after a week-long parliamentary recess. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) FINANCE, which is slated to reconvene this afternoon to hear from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, Foundation for Black Communities, Startup Canada and Alliance de l’industrie touristique du Québec. (4 – 6 PM)
The bill is also being pre-studied by several Senate committees, including
NATIONAL FINANCE, which will host a panel discussion with the mayors of Charlottetown, Stratford and Cornwall later this morning. (10:30 – 11:30 AM)
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, MPs will begin going through the fine print of a recently released report from the federal auditor general on the National Shipbuilding Strategy, which, as per those findings, has been “slow to deliver the combat and non-combat ships that Canada needs to meet its d
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As MPs head into a fourth straight week of full-time House business which, with two weeks to go until the week-long Victoria Day break, traditionally constitutes the longest block of uninterrupted sittings in the year-long parliamentary cycle the leaders of two of the three opposition parties are both set to hit the stage in the West Block media theatre this morning.
First up:
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, who will likely provide an update on how his party intends to use its upcoming opposition day, which is currently set for Tuesday and could see the Tories aim the full power of the Commons spotlight on
As MPs head into a fourth straight week of full-time House business which, with two weeks to go until the week-long Victoria Day break, traditionally constitutes the longest block of uninterrupted sittings in the year-long parliamentary cycle the leaders of two of the three opposition parties are both set to hit the stage in the West Block media theatre this morning.
First up:
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, who will likely provide an update on how his party intends to use its upcoming opposition day, which is currently set for Tuesday and could see the Tories aim the full power of the Commons spotlight on
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on May 2, 2021 4:00pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured working in Ottawa in February, could be a facing a House call to fire his longtime chief of staff, Katie Telford. (PMO handout/Twitter)
Having secured the necessary albeit grudging approval of the House for the policy outlined in her inaugural budget speech,
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland now faces a second, possibly even higher-stakes cross-aisle challenge: convincing at least one opposition party to back her bid to implement some of the measures laid out in last month’s presentation, courtesy of the 366-page omnibus bill dropped onto the Commons docket on Friday.