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Joan Bryden Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang May 05, 2021 - 1:00 AM OTTAWA - Legislation aimed at ensuring a federal election could be safely held during the COVID-19 pandemic is stalled in the House of Commons, even as Justin Trudeau's Liberals are fast-approaching the average expiry date for minority governments in Canada. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc blames the Conservatives for blocking Bill C-19. And he suggest...

iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. Published on May 2, 2021 4:00pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured working in Ottawa in February, could be a facing a House call to fire his longtime chief of staff, Katie Telford. (PMO handout/Twitter) Having secured the necessary — albeit grudging — approval of the House for the policy outlined in her inaugural budget speech, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland now faces a second, possibly even higher-stakes cross-aisle challenge: convincing at least one opposition party to back her bid to implement some of the measures laid out in last mon...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's first budget in two years looks set to join a pile of stalled bills in a Parliament besieged by partisan squabbling, a logjam that could be the trigger Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses to call an early election.

Article by Social Share Ottawa – Canada’s first budget in two years looks set to join a pile of stalled bills in a Parliament besieged by partisan squabbling, a logjam that could be the trigger Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses to call an early election. Trudeau’s Liberals have a minority of seats in the House of Commons and must rely on other parties to govern. They complain that the Conservatives, the largest opposition party, are blocking key bills as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still rages. “In recent months the Conservatives have been delaying legislation to the po...

Moments later, Cheney fist-bumped Biden as he walked down the aisle to the dais. The contrast between Biden and his more polarizing predecessor could not be more stark. At the State of the Union address just a year ago, Pelosi was so furious with what she called the “manifesto of mistruths” she ripped up a copy of Trump’s speech as he stood a few feet away. If he did anything during his speech, Biden lowered the temperature in the Capitol — and in Washington. At one poignant moment, the president personally thanked McConnell for naming a cancer research bill after his son, Beau Biden...