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A timely deep dive into parliamentary procedure.

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...

Process Nerd: The broadcasting-overhaul battle proves the system works By Kady O'Malley. Published on May 11, 2021 2:28pm Clause-by-clause review is a critical check on the system. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) Yes, you read that headline correctly, and no, Process Nerd isn’t being sarcastic, or ironic, or adopting the world-weary cynicism so common among the precinct punditerati. The procedural battle at the Heritage committee over the government’s long-promised reform of the federal broadcasting regime to cover online streaming giants like Netflix is not — in any way, shape...

iPolitics AM: Efforts to fast-track bill to end strike at Port of Montreal By Kady O'Malley. Published on Apr 28, 2021 6:01am The House of Commons pictured in June, 2020. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) With the procedural paperwork now in place for the government to force an end to the three-day-old strike at the Port of Montreal, the stage is set for a lightning-round after-hours review of a bill that would order hundreds of dock workers back on the job, pending binding arbitration to resolve the long-running contract dispute. Before that can get underway, however, the House has to sign...

iPolitics By Charlie Pinkerton. Published on Apr 8, 2021 5:03pm A vial of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine (Torstar file photo) Another showdown is looming due to the federal government’s reluctance to disclose its contracts with manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines. For months, opposition MPs have been asking to see the paperwork signed with the likes of Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca — the makers of the vaccines the Liberal government bought to inoculate Canadians. The MPs are after per-dose prices, more precise delivery schedules, any mentions of the possibility of Canadian manufac...