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With just five weeks to go until the House of Commons powers down for the summer which, as Process Nerd notes, works out to just 22 sitting days, of which only 17 can be devoted to government business the most time-sensitive item on Team Trudeau’s to-do list is Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s omnibus budget bill, the only piece of legislation that must make it to the finish line before the June 23 deadline. A brief recap, for those who may have lost track of its inexorably slow progress through the House: Although the 366-page opus first hit the parliamentary docket on April 30, it’s still inching its way through second reading, which means it hasn’t even made it through its first make-or-break vote. ....
Process Nerd: The broadcasting-overhaul battle proves the system works By Kady O Malley. Published on May 11, 2021 2:28pm Clause-by-clause review is a critical check on the system. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) Yes, you read that headline correctly, and no, Process Nerd isn’t being sarcastic, or ironic, or adopting the world-weary cynicism so common among the precinct punditerati. The procedural battle at the Heritage committee over the government’s long-promised reform of the federal broadcasting regime to cover online streaming giants like Netflix is not in any way, shape, or form evidence of a critical malfunction in the machinery of Parliament. In fact, it’s precisely the way our system of parliamentary checks and balances is supposed to work. ....