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.