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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I thought it was fast-tracked through to second reading?
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...copyright.html
The bill will receive its second reading after Parliament's summer break, which is expected to begin soon. Brison told CBCNews.ca that the Liberals plan to put together amendments to the bill over the summer.
Here's where I hope a political science major stumbles into the thread. I thought that when parliament shut down for the summer it entered prorogation and all the bills on the agenda that weren't passed just died. What the article suggests is that the bill will just sit in limbo over the summer when no committees will be meeting and then it will be re-read in the fall. It's not like the CPC decided to introduce the bill on Thursday and have second reading on Friday or today.
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Prorogation in Canada:
Effect of Prorogation on the House
- The principal effect of ending a session by prorogation is to terminate business.
- Bills under consideration by either the House or the Senate are entirely terminated. The expression “died on the Order Paper” is commonly used to indicate that a bill did not receive Royal Assent.
- In order for Government bills to be revived in the next session, they must be reintroduced as new bills. Bills may be reinstated at the same stage they had reached at the end of the previous session by way of a motion, which is debatable and votable.
- Standing Order 86.1 makes special provisions for reinstating Private Members' Bills at the same stage they had reached in the previous session without requiring a motion. Reinstatement does not apply to motions. Provisional Standing Orders, in force until June 30, 2004, provide that at the beginning of the 3rd Session of the 37th Parliament, all items of Private Members' business will be reinstated.
- Once prorogation has taken place, any document required to be tabled by statute, resolution or standing order must wait to be tabled at the beginning of the new session.
- Orders for the production of papers (including written questions made into orders for return) and requests for government responses to petitions made in the previous session remain in effect.
- Elections for the Assistant Deputy Speaker and the Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole take place at the beginning of each new session. The Speaker and Deputy Speaker are elected at the beginning of a new Parliament and continue in office from session to session.