C-45

All signs point to another omnibus budget, writes Aaron Wherry

Did the pipeline industry inspire the changes?

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.

Jeremy Warren talks to two of the women who started the burgeoning protest movement.

Wab Kinew explains the Idle No More protests.

The latest budget bill draws aboriginal protests.

On Tuesday, Denis Lebel ventured that all of the provinces had been consulted about C-45’s changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act and that none of the provinces had any concerns. But it seems the Nova Scotia government, having received a letter from Mr. Lebel three days before the bill was tabled, are still working on their response.

The benches empty as Peter Van Loan crosses the aisle

Sitting and standing for hours and hours

Aaron Wherry’s formerly live blog from a long night in the House