NDP MPs pose with a stack of paper to protest the government’s use of time allocation to limit debate in the House of Commons
Tag Archives: time allocation
Why is the Harper government using time allocation so often?
An oral history of managing debate
Procedural wars: Fair Elections Act edition
The wrangling commences
Smashing the time allocation record
A new standard for limiting debate
A short history of limiting debate in the House of Commons
Have MPs forgotten how to work together?
Suddenly the Prime Minister believes he needs the opposition’s permission?
Has he forgotten about the option of time allocation?
How to spend a year not doing anything on Senate reform, while demanding change
Why don’t the Conservatives just pass their bill?
Time management
The government moves to limit debate
C-38: How this will go down
The Conservatives have just moved a motion of time allocation for both report stage and third reading of C-38. Once that motion passes the House—sometime in the next hour—debate on C-38 will be restricted to 10 hours at report stage and eight hours at third reading. The New Democrats say this is the 26th time the Conservatives have limited debate since forming a majority government last year.
Limited tolerance for debate
Twice today—this morning in regards to C-31, this afternoon in regards to back-to-work legislation for CP Rail—the government passed motions to limit debate.