OTTAWA — After a dramatic end-of-session scramble, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has managed to pass another batch of laws, but its budget is still in limbo. As the House of Commons rises for summer — with the Senate still at work — here’s the legislative state of play. National Alzheimer’s and dementia strategyA Conservative private member’s bill will become law after receiving all-party support in both chambers. Property damage motivated by hateA Senate committee went through clause-by-clause review of a Liberal MP’s private member’s bill on hate crime Wednesday, which just leaves third reading to be completed. The official song will still go, “in all thy sons command,” rather than “in all of us command” as late Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger proposed in a private member’s bill passed in the Commons a year ago.

Source: National Post June 22, 2017 02:03 UTC