After more than 20 hours of continuous voting, the Conservatives have ended their filibuster-like tit-for-tat tactics in the House of Commons. The Conservatives had threatened to keep MPs in the House into the weekend, but they withdrew their amendment just before 3 p.m. The House was ruling on fiscal estimates, so every vote is a vote of confidence, keeping Liberal MPs close to their seats. Jaspal Atwal — a one-time Canadian Sikh separatist extremist convicted of attempted murder— had been invited to two events with the prime minister during a recent trip to India. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)"When the prime minister uses a senior and respected civil servant as a human shield to get out of a bad political scandal, that's terrible," said O'Toole.

Source: CBC News March 23, 2018 07:56 UTC