In another sign of the increasingly activist role the Senate is playing in Parliament, the government’s key budget legislation is being targeted for amendments by the upper chamber for the second consecutive time. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having released Liberal senators from caucus and appointed independent senators, votes no longer fall along predictable party lines. At least two parts of Bill C-44, the omnibus legislation that implements the government’s budget priorities, are likely to see substantial amendments when the bill arrives in the chamber next week. “It’s a 3oo-page bill, and the infrastructure bank is a new, complex institution, and an important one. “It was the mandate from this government,” he said, pointing to the many bills the Senate has amended recently.

Source: National Post June 09, 2017 00:34 UTC