[longsuffering]

The Liberals have offered a reasonable and sensible compromise. How dare they!

The Liberals would like to hive off four main areas Bill C-38. The first deals with the environment. Clause 52, for example, is an entire act in itself called Canada Environment Assessment Act 2012, Mr. Garneau said. “To put all of this in one clause in a budget implementation bill is totally unacceptable.”

The second area the Liberals want taken out deals with fisheries. “There are changes to the Fisheries Act that will have impact to coastal areas, to coastal economies, and this bill is important enough that the clauses dealing with fisheries should be broken out of Bill C-38,” Mr. Garneau said.

The third section they want removed deals with Old Age Security. The government intends to raise the age that Canadians can collect OAS to 67 from 65. But, according to the bill, this will not happen for 11 years. “So the argument of urgency does not apply here,” Mr. Garneau said.

And the fourth section deals with changes to Employment Insurance.

“We won’t fight other issues,” Mr. Garneau said. “We have 753 clauses here. We have left 250 in there. Those deal with budget implementation. We have no problem with that. But these four areas are particularly important.”

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