Starting today at 9am BC Time or Noon Ottawa - House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer will rule on the 871 amendments to Bill C-38 and decide which ones can be proposed, which ones can not and how they are to be grouped for discussion/voting
The Globe and Mail looks at this issue here
See below for a CBC video outlining the week ahead on Bill C-38 (2012 Budget Implementation) below:
My own prediction is that MP's better get ready for a lot of long nights as I think Mr. Speaker Scheer will allow a large number of Green Party amendments, given they don't have any right to sit on House of Commons Committees, in contrast to their Liberal and NDP colleagues. As well - I expect many of the proposed amendments proposed by the NDP/Liberals to be severally limited, given they could have proposed similar amendments when Bill C-38 was at the Commons' Finance Committee
Finally - some interesting stats from the Globe and Mail:
6.8: The average number of votes per hour during so-called standing votes, when MPs are called by name.
14.7: The number of hours it would take MPs to vote on 100 amendments
128: The number of hours it would take MPs to get through 871 amendments should the Speaker allow individual votes for each one
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