Day Two of the budget debate
Thursday’s budget debate began with a time allocation motion. Nathan Cullen, among others, was displeased and cited the Young Stephen Harper to support his displeasure.
There are 421 pages of complex and individual ideas now lumped together in an omnibus bill. If the government had the actual courage of its convictions and believed that these were right issues to debate and present to Canadians, it would not lump them all together: the rollback of OAS rights to Canadians, the devastation of pay equity rules that apply to federal contracts and a ripping up and destruction of environmental protections when it comes to major projects.
If the Conservatives used to believe that these distinct issues should stand on their own merit for debate so Canadians can understand what is being applied, why the change of heart, why the change of convictions now?
After the motion was approved by a vote of 145-122, debate of the bill resumed with Peter Kent speaking for the government side.
“If the government had the actual courage of its convictions and believed that these were right issues to debate and present to Canadians, it would not lump them all together …. ”
Sir Arnold ~ If people don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what you’re doing wrong
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145 + 122 = 267. That’s 41 MPs who couldn’t be bothered to weigh in.
The seat total of the CPC is 165, so we know at least 20 CPC members couldn’t be bothered to show up.
And why not? Because the combined seat total of the opposition is 143.
Leave it to the CPC to do just barely enough to skate by, and put in not an ounce more effort for this country.
Thwim on