C-38

All signs point to another omnibus budget, writes Aaron Wherry

Chris Selley points to one part of C-45, last year’s second budget implementation act.

A senior government source tells the Star that the Prime Minister understands the importance of Friday’s meeting with aboriginal leaders, but the Globe wonders if the meeting will happen at all—some chiefs apparently agreeing with Theresa Spence that the Governor General must be present. Or, as one chief explained to APTN, “If there is any honour in this Crown the governor general better get his ass there.” (I believe the proper phrasing is “his right honourable ass.”)

Conservative MP Larry Miller suggests opposition complaints about the size of this year’s omnibus budget bills are not to be taken seriously because he “never heard a peep out of them” when the budget bill in 2010 was 900 pages.

Aaron Wherry on parliamentary democracy and Peter van Loan’s proposal

Elizabeth May is her own leader, as Aaron Wherry reports

Olivia Chow will table a motion at the transport committee today that would have the committee study “all transport and infrastructure-related aspects of C-45, especially the changes proposed to the Navigable Waters Protection Act.”

In response to the attention received for his last blog post, the Conservative backbencher shrugs.

Postmedia picks up on Brent Rathgeber’s blog post and interviews the Conservative backbencher.

The council isn’t impressed with the withdrawal of government funding for the Experimental Lakes Area.

Conservative MP John Weston apparently came to the conclusion last week that the government had failed in one particular way on C-38.

It will obviously be awhile now before the Procedure and House Affairs committee reconvenes, but Liberal House leader Marc Garneau has tabled the following motion there.