Omnibus bill debate curtailed

Only ten more hours left to debate Bill C-38 in parliament.  According to the CBC a ten-hour time limit was passed yesterday with one hundred and fifty seven Conservatives voting yay and one hundred and thirty five opposition members voting nay.

Bill C-38 implements the Conservative’s March budget as well as seventy other laws affecting environmental regulation, employment insurance and immigration. The time limit is intended to ensure that voting is complete before parliament’s summer recess. 

Opposition parties proposed over one thousand amendments to the bill last week.

This is the twenty-sixth time Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have passed such legislation breaking the record held by the previous Liberal government.  With the new time cap in place voting is expected to be completed tonight or early Thursday morning.