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Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Don't hold your breath, Pal Al.... whaddeya bet the Senate kills the bill?  |
If Harper needs to in the new year, he can fill vacancies in the senate with conservative appointees and he will have a majority in the senate. He would, of course, rather wait until he can reform the senate and have an elected senate instead of the current patronage appointees. But it will soon be doable on the stacking, so the senate is not the problem.
The next big hurdle for this bill will be the committee which is supposed to study, and if need be, vote amendments to this bill. The Liberals on this committee have already promised that the bill will never see the light of day. If I recall, the committee that was working on it before this second reading was already trying to get the bill scrapped, but the conservative member of the committee was still able to steer it through.